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Accounting for Tastes, (Harvard University Press, 1996).
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The Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle, with Gilbert R. Ghez, (National Bureau of Economic Research, 1975).
The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-world Issues Affect Our Everyday Life, with Guity Nashat Becker, (McGraw-Hill, 1997).