Explaining the Labor Force Participation of Women 20-24 (2007)
Ray C. Fair, Diane J. Macunovich
Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s there was a remarkable rise in the labor force participation of women and then a leveling off that has persisted through the mid 1990s. This paper attempts to...
Abstract: Focusing just on the fertility aspects of the Easterlin hypothesis, this paper offers a critical assessment-- rather than just a selective citation-- of the extensive fertility literature...
Retirement Prospects of the Baby Boom Generation: A Different Perspective (1990)
Easterlin, Richard A., Macdonald, Christine, Macunovich, Diane J.
We examine the average economic status of baby boom cohorts as they approach retirement chiefly using data on their life cycle income experience to date. Contrary to popular impression, baby boomers...
Explaining the Labor Force Participation of Women 20-24
Ray C. Fair, Diane J. Macunovich
Between about the mid 1960s and the late 1970s there was a remarkable rise in the labor force participation of women and then a leveling off that has persisted through the mid 1990s. This paper...
Relative Cohort Size: Source of a Unifying Theory of Global Fertility Transition?
Using United Nations estimates of age structure and vital rates for 184 countries at five-year intervals from 1950 through 1995, this article demonstrates how changes in relative cohort size appear...
A conversation with Richard Easterlin
After an introduction touching on various biographical highlights, this paper summarizes a wide-ranging discussion with Richard Easterlin which occurred in the Autumn of 1996. We considered the...
Fertility and the Easterlin hypothesis: An assessment of the literature
Focusing just on the fertility aspects of the Easterlin hypothesis, this paper offers a critical assessment - rather than just a selective citation - of the extensive fertility literature generated...
The fortunes of one's birth: Relative cohort size and the youth labor market in the United States
Using two different measures of relative cohort size - one indicating the size and placement of an individual's own birth cohort, and the other, the ratio of young to prime age adults in the United...