The Economics of Discrimination, (University of Chicago Press, 1957, 2nd ed., 1971).
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, (National Bureau of Economic Research, 1964, 2nd ed., 1975, 3rd ed., 1993).
Economic Theory, (Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, new ed., 2007).
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior, (University of Chicago Press, 1976).
A Treatise on the Family, (Harvard University Press, 1981, Enl. ed., 1991).
An Economic Analysis of the Family, (Economic and Social Research Institute, 1986).
Economic Growth, Inequality and Population Growth: the Family and the State, (Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, 1987).
Accounting for Tastes, (Harvard University Press, 1996).
Viết chung
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).
Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment, with Kevin M. Murphy, (Harvard University Press, 2000).
Đồng chủ biên
Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment, co-edited with William M. Landes, (Columbia University Press, 1974).
