James Walker
Professor of Economics
4434 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 263-2783
walker@ssc.wisc.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interest Statement
Over the last five years, Walker's research has focused on internal migration in the United States and modeling fertility expectations. Kennan and Walker developed an estimable dynamic model of migration decision making over the life cycle. They estimated the model on two distinct subpopulations. Walker analyzed fertility expectation processes of two cohorts of American women. He finds that pregnancy is a salient event for young women as collectively they possess accurate expectations of pregnancy and birth outcomes. However, among women of the NLSY79 expectations are slow to converge to realized completed fertility. In 2005, he completed a seven-year term as the principal investigator of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort.
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CDE Research Theme Working Groups
Demography of Inequality
Health and Mortality
Fertility/Families and Households
Data and Methodology