Editing Gary Becker (section)

=== Modern household economics ===
Together, Becker and [[Jacob Mincer]] founded Modern Household Economics, sometimes called the New Home Economics (NHE), in the 1960s at the labor workshop at Columbia University that they both directed. [[Shoshana Grossbard]], who was a student of Becker at the University of Chicago, first published a history of the NHE at Columbia and Chicago in 2001.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Grossbard-Shechtman Shoshana | year = 2001 | title = The New Home Economics at Columbia and Chicago | journal = Feminist Economics | volume = 7 | issue = 3| pages = 103–130 | doi = 10.1080/13545700110111136 | s2cid = 153814425 }}</ref> After receiving feedback from the NHE founders she revised her account.<ref>Shoshana Grossbard (2006) “The New Home Economics at Columbia and Chicago” in Jacob Mincer: A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics, edited by S Grossbard, Springer</ref>

Among the first publications in Modern Household Economics were Becker (1960) on fertility,<ref>Becker, Gary S.  1960. "An Economic Analysis of Fertility." In National Bureau Committee for Economic Research, Demographic and Economic Change in Developed Countries, a Conference of the Universities. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press</ref> Mincer (1962) on women's labor supply,<ref>{{cite book | author = Jacob Mincer |year=1962 |chapter=Labor Force Participation of Married Women: a Study of Labor Supply |editor= H. Gregg Lewis |title=Aspects of Labor Economics |publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref> and Becker (1965) on the allocation of time.<ref>{{cite journal |author = Gary Becker |title=A Theory of the Allocation of Time |journal= The Economic Journal |volume=75 |issue=299 |year=1965 |pages= 493–517|doi=10.2307/2228949 |jstor=2228949 }}</ref><ref>Jan De Vries (2008) ''The industrious revolution: consumer behavior and the household economy'', Cambridge, p. 26 {{ISBN?}}</ref> Students and faculty who attended the Becker-Mincer workshop at Columbia in the 1960s and have published in the NHE tradition include Andrea Beller, [[Barry Chiswick]], Carmel Chiswick, [[Victor Fuchs]], [[Michael Grossman (economist)|Michael Grossman]], Robert Michael, [[June E. O'Neill]], Sol Polachek, and Robert Willis. [[James Heckman]] was also influenced by the NHE tradition and attended the labor workshop at Columbia from 1969 until his move to the University of Chicago. The NHE may be seen as a subfield of [[family economics]].<ref>{{cite journal | author = Berk Richard A., Fenstermaker Berk Sarah | year = 1983 | title = Supply-side sociology of the family: The challenge of the new home economics | journal = Annual Review of Sociology | volume = 9 | issue = 1| pages = 375–395 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.so.09.080183.002111 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Grossbard-Shechtman Shoshana | year = 2001 | title = The new home economics at Colombia and Chicago | journal = Feminist Economics | volume = 7 | issue = 3| pages = 103–130 | doi = 10.1080/13545700110111136 | s2cid = 153814425 }}</ref>

In 2013, responding to a lack of women in top positions in the United States, Becker told the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reporter [[David Wessel]], "A lot of barriers [to women and blacks] have been broken down. That's all for the good.  It's much less clear what we see today is the result of such artificial barriers. Going home to take care of the kids when the man doesn't: Is that a waste of a woman's time? There's no evidence that it is."  This view was criticized by [[Charles I. Jones|Charles Jones]], stating that, "Productivity could be 9 percent to 15 percent higher, potentially, if all barriers were eliminated."<ref>{{cite news| author= David Wessel |title=The Economics of Leaning In|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323916304578400192414995044?mod=e2fb|access-date=4 April 2013|newspaper= The Wall Street Journal|date= 3 April 2013}}</ref>