James R. Walker

Professor of Economics at UW-Madison

James R. Walker

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        • Introduction and History of Population Growth
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Economic Theories of Fertility

Becker (1960) An Economic Analysis of Fertility

Ben Porath (1976) Fertility Response to Child Mortality: Micro Data from Israel

Cleland (2001)

Easterlin (1975) An Economic Analysis of Fertility

Easterlin (1978) The Economics and Sociology of Fertility: A Synthesis

Feyrer et al. (2008) Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations

Hotz, Klerman, and Willis (1997) The Economics of Fertility in Developed Countries

Jeon and Shields (2005) The Easterlin Hypothesis in the Recent Experience of Higher Income OECD Countries

Macunovich (1997) Fertility and the Easterlin Hypothesis: An Assessment of the Literature

Macunovich (2000) Relative Cohort Size: Source of Unifying Theory of Global Fertility Transition

Schultz (1997) The Demand for Children in Low Income Countries

Wolpin (1998) The Impact of Infant and Child Mortality Risk on Mortality

Family Planning

Kohler (2012) Copenhagen Consensus 2012: Challenge Paper on ‘Population Growth’

Molyneaux and Gertler (2000) The Impact of Targeted Family Planning Programs in Indonesia

Tsui (2001) Population Policies, Family Planning Programs and Fertility: The Record

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