{"title":"Household saving and demographic change, 1950-2050.","authors":"P Wachtel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"217-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The schooling and health of children of U.S. immigrants and natives.","authors":"T P Schultz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper compares the school achievement and health status of children of immigrants to the United States with those of children of native-born Americans. Since schooling and health of children influence their productivity and earnings as adults, these comparisons should help to assess whether any relative economic disadvantage that immigrants may sustain upon entry to the United States is transmitted to their children.\" Problems involved in measuring the education and health of children are discussed. A model of migrant behavior is then outlined and tested using data from the 1976 Survey of Income and Education.</p>","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"251-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of health programs on breastfeeding and child mortality in Peninsular Malaysia.","authors":"K H Anderson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"87-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micro determinants of female migration in a developing country: labor market, demographic marriage market and economic marriage market incentives.","authors":"J R Behrman, B L Wolfe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A micro study of inter-regional migration by women in Nicaragua is presented. The authors \"explore three sets of migratory incentives: (1) labor market factors such as usually are emphasized; (2) 'demographic marriage market' considerations (i.e., the probability of having a male companion)...; and (3) 'economic marriage market' considerations (i.e., the expected earnings from a companion given regional labor market conditions and assortative mating)....[They] use estimates of expected outcomes in origin, destination and third regions--conditional upon the woman's characteristics and upon regional differences in labor and marriage markets--to explore the consistency of actual migratory flows with these three sets of migratory incentives.\" Data are from a sample of approximately 4,000 women aged 15-45 who were interviewed in 1977-1978.</p>","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"137-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22005808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Son preference in Pakistan: an analysis of intentions vs. behavior.","authors":"D De Tray","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"185-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22005810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model of child nutrition, fertility, and women's time allocation: the case of Nicaragua.","authors":"D M Blau","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This study had two main goals. The first was to test the hypothesis that women who work in the informal sector of the labor force have better-nourished children, ceteris paribus, than women who work in the formal sector. A simple home production model for child nutrition incorporating this hypothesis was specified and the behavior of a utility-maximizing household investigated. The empirical estimates of the nutritional status production function provided no convincing support for the hypothesis.\" The second goal was \"to investigate the joint determinants of child nutrition and of women's fertility and work choices....[It is suggested] that increases in women's education and formal sector wages will induce declines in fertility and improvements in child nutrition. Increases in informal sector wages will improve nutrition but have little impact on fertility, and income effects are minimal on all three variables.\" Data are from a household survey conducted in Nicaragua in 1977 and 1978.</p>","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"113-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22005807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graphic tests of Easterlin's hypothesis: science or art?","authors":"A Rutten, R Higgs","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"201-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lifetime models of female labor supply, wage rates, and fertility.","authors":"G Carliner, C Robinson, N Tomes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22005806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discrete choices in a continuous time model: life-cycle time allocation and fertility decisions.","authors":"Vijverberg Wpm","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper proposes and tests a dynamic model that [analyzes] time allocation decisions and fertility choices. The latter consist of timing of children and completed family size. [The author emphasizes] the need to integrate both types of choices in order to arrive at a meaningful empirical analysis and shows that, with exceptions, research on female labor supply has largely ignored the progress made in studies on fertility.... The estimation results, obtained by the maximum likelihood method from the [U.S.] Panel Study of Income Dynamics,...indicate support for the model as well as the need for further research.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"51-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal life-cycle profiles of fertility and labor supply.","authors":"R Moffitt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85403,"journal":{"name":"Research in population economics","volume":"5 ","pages":"29-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}