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What do Gary Becker and 1943 have in common?

11/7/2012

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In this manner investments in children with "normal" labor orientations [men towards the market, women towards the household] reinforce their biology, and they become specialized to the usual sexual division of labor. Investments in "deviant" children, on the other hand, conflict with their biology, and the net outcome for them is not certain. For some, their biology might dominate and they would seek a deviant division of labor, with men in the household and women in the market... But presumably the discrepancy between investments and biology is a source of conflict and even agony for the biologically deviant.
- Gary S. Becker, Nobel Laureate, Treatise on the Family (1991)

This makes me:
1. Annoyed that I needed to buy his book for my own research on fertility.
2. Glad my entire literature review is about disproving his unitary household model.
3. Wonder if Romney knows that his binders are full of biological deviants.
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