2026 Gary S. Becker: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	95	129	98	268	370928

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2004 - Jacob Mincer Award, the Society of Labour Economics (SOLE)
2000 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his pioneering the economic analysis of racial discrimination, inventing the economics of human resources, producing the major modern innovations in economic demography and in economic criminology, and leading recent developments in how social forces shape individual economic behavior.", Presented by Dr. Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, at a black-tie dinner awards ceremony at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, Friday, December 1, 2000.
1992 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including non-market behaviour
1992 - Nobel Prize for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour
1988 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
1975 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1967 - John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association
1965 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1965 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Gary S. Becker was a scholar primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spanned several areas within economics, econometrics, and finance, with additional work touching on political science and international relations.

Becker's main fields of study included:

Economics, Econometrics and Finance

The subfields covered in their work included:

Economics and Econometrics
Political Science and International Relations

The principal topics of Becker's research encompassed:

Local Government Finance and Decentralization
Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Becker published frequently in venues such as Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks and The Frontiers of Society Science and Technology. Two recent papers included:

"Index," 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
"Rational Addiction and Cigarette in the Context of Health Economics-A Literature Review," 2023, The Frontiers of Society Science and Technology

The scholar also published books, including a work titled "Economics and Sociology" in 2020 through Princeton University Press.

Collaborations featured several co-authors, including:

Richard Swedberg
James S. Coleman
George A. Akerlof
Harrison C. White
Mark Granovetter

Throughout their career, Becker received multiple awards and honors, such as:

Jacob Mincer Award from the Society of Labour Economics in 2004
US President's National Medal of Science in 2000, awarded for pioneering contributions to the economic analysis of racial discrimination, human resource economics, economic demography, economic criminology, and social forces shaping economic behavior
Nobel Prize in 1992 for extending microeconomic analysis to a broad range of human behavior and interaction including nonmarket behavior
Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 1988
Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1975
John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association in 1967
Fellowships with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Statistical Association in 1965

Best Publications

Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

Gary Stanley Becker

71583
Citations
Human Capital Revisited

Gary Becker

35621
Citations
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach

Gary Becker

25131
Citations
Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach

Gary S. Becker

24241
Citations
A Treatise on the Family: Enlarged Edition

Gary Becker

24225
Citations
A Treatise on the Family

Gary Stanley Becker

24194
Citations
The Economics of Discrimination

Gary Stanley Becker

20219
Citations
A Theory of the Allocation of Time

Gary S. Becker

17581
Citations
The Economics of Discrimination

Gary Becker

14429
Citations
Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis

Gary S. Becker

14149
Citations
A Theory of Social Interactions

Gary Becker

11189
Citations
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

Gary Stanley Becker

10904
Citations
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

Gary S. Becker

6996
Citations
De gustibus non est disputandum

George J. Stigler;Gary S. Becker

6430
Citations
A Theory of Rational Addiction

Gary S. Becker;Kevin M. Murphy

5867
Citations
An Economic Analysis of Fertility

Gary S Becker

5645
Citations
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children

Gary S. Becker;H. Gregg Lewis

5068
Citations
A Theory of Marriage: Part II

Gary Becker

4728
Citations
Human capital and the rise and fall of families

Gary S. Becker;Nigel Tomes

4595
Citations
A Theory of Marriage: Part II

Gary S. Becker

4499
Citations
A Theory of Social Interactions

Gary S. Becker

4245
Citations
Human capital fertility and economic growth.

Gary S Becker;Kevin M Murphy;Robert F Tamura

4232
Citations
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor

Gary S. Becker

3912
Citations
Human Capital. A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

H. V. Muhsam;G. S. Becker

1401
Citations
Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

Gary Becker

58
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin M. Murphy University of Chicago

Tomas Philipson University of Chicago

Richard A. Posner University of Chicago

Michael Grossman City University of New York

Casey B. Mulligan University of Chicago

Robert J. Barro Harvard University

Milton Friedman Oregon Health & Science University

Iván Werning MIT

Bernard E. Harcourt Columbia University

Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California

External Links

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