| Human capital: A theoretical and empirical analysis, with special reference to education GS Becker University of Chicago press, 2009 | 43669 | 2009 |
| Some tests of specification for panel data: Monte Carlo evidence and an application to employment equations M Arellano, S Bond The review of economic studies 58 (2), 277-297, 1991 | 29484 | 1991 |
| A Treatise on the Family GS Becker, GS Becker Harvard university press, 2009 | 20829 | 2009 |
| Crime and punishment: An economic approach GS Becker The economic dimensions of crime, 13-68, 1968 | 18726 | 1968 |
| A Theory of the Allocation of Time GS Becker The economic journal, 493-517, 1965 | 14242 | 1965 |
| The economics of discrimination GS Becker University of Chicago press, 2010 | 11298 | 2010 |
| Investment in human capital: A theoretical analysis GS Becker Journal of political economy 70 (5, Part 2), 9-49, 1962 | 9939 | 1962 |
| The economic approach to human behavior GS Becker University of Chicago press, 2013 | 8691 | 2013 |
| A theory of competition among pressure groups for political influence GS Becker The quarterly journal of economics 98 (3), 371-400, 1983 | 5975 | 1983 |
| De gustibus non est disputandum GJ Stigler, GS Becker The american economic review 67 (2), 76-90, 1977 | 5620 | 1977 |
| A theory of marriage: Part I GS Becker Journal of Political economy 81 (4), 813-846, 1973 | 5492* | 1973 |
| A theory of social interactions GS Becker Journal of political economy 82 (6), 1063-1093, 1974 | 5352 | 1974 |
| A theory of rational addiction GS Becker, KM Murphy Journal of political Economy 96 (4), 675-700, 1988 | 4685 | 1988 |
| An economic analysis of fertility GS Becker Demographic and economic change in developed countries, 209-240, 1960 | 4149 | 1960 |
| On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children GS Becker, HG Lewis Journal of political Economy 81 (2, Part 2), S279-S288, 1973 | 3651 | 1973 |
| Human capital and the rise and fall of families GS Becker, N Tomes Journal of labor economics 4 (3, Part 2), S1-S39, 1986 | 3349 | 1986 |
| Human capital, fertility, and economic growth GS Becker, KM Murphy, R Tamura Journal of political economy 98 (5, Part 2), S12-S37, 1990 | 3106 | 1990 |
| Human capital, effort, and the sexual division of labor GS Becker Journal of labor economics 3 (1, Part 2), S33-S58, 1985 | 2955 | 1985 |
| Law enforcement, malfeasance, and compensation of enforcers GS Becker, GJ Stigler The Journal of Legal Studies 3 (1), 1-18, 1974 | 2751 | 1974 |
| Accounting for tastes GS Becker Harvard University Press, 1998 | 2512 | 1998 |