Download or read book Handbook of Population and Family Economics written by M.R. Rosenzweig and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1997-04-23 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises 21 articles that survey areas of research in population and family economics.

Download or read book Essays in Population and Family Economics written by Alexis León and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Cont.) observed in several Western countries. Finally, the third chapter evaluates the labor market effects of public subsidies to families with children. Using variation in the level of benefits provided by a policy reform in the UK that affected differentially what would otherwise be comparable groups of families, I estimate the effect of family allowances (also known as child benefits) on female labor force participation. The results show evidence of negative, yet insignificant and quantitatively negligible, effects of family allowances on female labor force participation.

Download or read book Essays on Population Economics written by Guangyu Ma and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How fertility affects economic development has long been a central concern of China. To control population and improve living standard, China has adopted the family planning policy since 1979 with the one-child-per-couple rule being the major component. Although this strict policy has been a success on controlling population base for twenty eight years, it has been widely criticized for harming the overall social welfare in many aspects. My dissertation both analytically and empirically examines whether lowering the fertility rate and constraining it to a certain level will enhance economic growth and total social welfare.

Download or read book Essays on Population Policy written by Edwin D. Driver and published by Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books. This book was released on 1972 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph of essays comprising a survey of population policy issues in the USA - examines social policies affecting human fertility and family planning, current trends in population research and teaching, etc. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

Download or read book Population Economics Selected Essays of Joseph J Spengler written by Joseph John Spengler and published by Durham, N.C : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses history of population theory MP Examines the theoretical motifs which should considered in formulating any population theory, and brings in to focus the author's reflects on population and economic climate of developing ...

Download or read book Population written by Thomas Robert Malthus and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malthus's classic prescription for the problem of overpopulation

Download or read book An Essay on the Principle of Population written by Thomas Robert Malthus and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1796, Mr. Malthus, an English gentleman, had finished reading a book that confidently predicted human life would continue to grow richer, more comfortable and more secure, and that nothing could stop the march of progress. He discussed this theme with his son, Thomas, and Thomas ardently disagreed with both his father and the book he had been reading, along with the entire idea of unending human progress. Mr. Malthus suggested that he write down his objections so that they could discuss them point-by-point. Not long after, Thomas returned with a rather long essay. His father was so impressed that he urged his son to have it published. And so, in 1798, appeared An Essay on Population, by British political economist and demographer THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS (1766-1834). Though it was attacked at the time and ridiculed for many years afterward, it has remained one of the most influential works in the English language on the general checks and balances of the world's population and its necessary control. This is a replica of the 1826 sixth edition. Volume 2 includes: Book III: "Of the Different Systems, Which Have Been Proposed or Have Prevailed in Society, As They Affect the Evils Arising from The Principle of Population" and Book IV: "Of our future Prospects respecting the Removal or Mitigation of the Evils arising from the Principle of Population."

Download or read book Hungry People and Empty Lands written by S. Chandrasekhar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1954, this reissue deals with the problem of international tensions arising from demographic and fertility differences, with special reference to such heavily populated Asian countries as China, Japan and India.

Download or read book The Economics of the Family written by Nancy Folbre and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously published essays that highlights the historical dialogue between neoclassical and institutionalist approaches to the economics of the family. The volume is divided into eight sections: neoclassical perspectives; institutionalist and feminist perspectives; bargaining power models; fertility decline; intergenerational transfers; intra-household allocation; families and class inequality; and families and the state. The earliest of the 31 essays is Schultz's "An Economic Model of Family Planning and Fertility" (1969); the most recent is Folbre's "Children as Public Goods" (1994). No subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Reproducing Families written by David Levine and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987-08-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the course of English population history from 1066 to the 1980s, with a particular focus on English family forms.

Download or read book An Essay on the Principle of Sustainable Population written by Toshihiko Hara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the future of the global population and proposes revising Malthus’ Law. The United Nations estimates that the global population will top 11 billion by 2100, at which point its growth will be near an end: it will find a new ‎equilibrium in a long demographic transition from high birth and death rates to low ones. However, the author reviews the fertility developments reported in the World Population Prospects 2017, which are near or below the replacement level in most regions, with the important exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, and warns of a possible scenario of the extinction of human society. Returning to Malthus, his Essay on the Principle of Population is critically reconsidered. Simple simulations show that exponential growth and decay are unsustainable beyond the narrow ranges of the net reproduction rate. In addition, the length of reproduction periods, which depends on women’s lifespans, plays a pivotal role. The limits of growth are given in any case, to the extent that time and space will permit. From this perspective, teleological conditions such as instinct, passion, or even natural reproductive tendencies are irrelevant and unnecessary. When the population deviates too far from the replacement level, either its shrinking or massive growth will overshoot the limits of its existence. This principle of sustainable population indicates that the demographic transition must follow a logistic curve. Using a system dynamics approach, the author constructs a simulation model based on four major loops: fertility, reproduction timing, social capital accumulation, and lifespan. Using only endogenous variables, this model successfully reproduces the historical process of the demographic transition in Japan. Thereby, it shows that the timing and periods of reproduction, maximum fertility, and maximum lifespan hold the key to sustainability. Based on these findings, the author subsequently discusses recovering replacement fertility, extending lifespans, and the demographic future of the human race.

Download or read book An Essay on the Principle of Population written by T. R. Malthus and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources.

Download or read book Economic Development the Family and Income Distribution written by Simon Kuznets and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-12 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published posthumously. It represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier work. The first four chapters deal with 'modern economic growth'. Chapters five to seven introduce the main theme of the remainder of the volume: interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. Chapters eight to ten draw on a wider set of data to make comparisons of income inequality among societies at widely different levels of development. Chapter eleven returns to data for the United States to develop more fully the importance of differing childbearing patterns for income inequality. In the introduction Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings. In the afterword Professor Robert Fogel discusses the methodologies favoured by Kuznets.

Download or read book Population Capital and Growth written by Simon Kuznets and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay on the Principle of Population written by Thomas Robert Malthus and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2004 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year."

Download or read book An Essay on the Principle of Population written by Thomas Malthus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-08-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world's population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year. In many countries, supplies of food and water are inadequate to support the population, so the world falls deeper and deeper into what economists call the "Malthusian trap." Here, Malthus examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. (Text refers to another publication of this book.)

Download or read book Economics of the Family written by Martin Browning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.