Publisher Summary This chapter describes the intellectual development and the empirical
implications of the literature on the economics of fertility as it applies to fertility behavior in …

This paper reviews half a century of research into the determinants of fertility. It is argued that
the quest for the determinants of fertility behaviour and change during that period can best …

Imagine each family as a kind of little factory—a multiperson unit producing meals, health,
skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

A framework for analyzing the relationship between intermediate fertility variables and
fertility levels is presented. An intermediate fertility variable is defined as any behavioral or …

This is the first book to comprehensively apply the fundamental tools and concepts of
demography to a nonhuman species. It provides clear and concise treatment of standard …

This book presents statistical methods for analysis of the duration of events. The primary
focus is on models for single-spell data, events in which individual agents are observed for a …

When the second edition of this book was nearly exhausted, and orders were grinding to a
halt, Springer urged me to do a third edition. At the age of 90 I said that was out of the …

One of the hallmarks of the development of political science as a discipline has been the
creation of new methodologies by scholars within the discipline--methodologies that are well …

This paper summarizes the contributions of microeconometrics to economic knowledge.
Four main themes are developed.(1) Microeconometricians developed new tools to respond …