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Household finances, income shocks and family separation in Britain by Bridges, S.J., Disney, Richard

“…We examine whether the data provides any support for the ‘economic’ models of divorce and separation developed by Gary Becker and his colleagues.…”
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Never intended to be a theory about everything: Domestic labour in neoclassical and Marxian economics by Jefferson, Therese, King, J.

“…Later mainstream analyses, first in agricultural economics and then in human capital theory culminated in Gary Becker?s ?new household economics.? Domestic labor was also neglected by Marxist thinkers, who argued that housework was being socialized under capitalism and would disappear altogether under socialism, but it was rediscovered by Marxist-feminists in the late 1960s. …”
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