The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing recent work in …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking "Treatise on the Family" provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing recent work in …

; provides an occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have … replacement of what had been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing … recent work in family economics that attempts to explain these changes, we point out some challenging areas for further …