Publications and papers:

DIANE J. MACUNOVICH – August 2003

PUBLICATIONS

1. Published Articles

• “Effects of Changing Age Structure and Intergenerational Transfers on Patterns of Consumption and Saving”, in The Allocation of Public and Private Resources Across Generations, edited by Shripad Tuljapurkar and Anne Gauthier, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• “Economic Theories of Fertility”, Chapter 8 in Economics of Gender and the Family, edited by Karine Moe, Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming.
• “Population Cycles”, an entry for publication in the Encyclopedia of Population, Revised Edition, edited by Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll, Macmillan Reference USA: forthcoming.
• "Baby Booms and Busts in the Twentieth Century", an entry to be included in the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by N.J.Smelser and P.B.Baltes, Pergamon Press, forthcoming in 2002.
• “Richard A. Easterlin”, an entry for publication in the Encyclopedia of Population, Revised Edition, edited by Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll, Macmillan Reference USA: forthcoming.
• "The Baby Boomers", an entry to be included in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by David Ekerdt. Macmillan Reference: forthcoming.
• “Social Determinants of Human Reproduction”, (2001) Journal of Human Reproduction, 16(7):1518-1526. with other members of the European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology Capri Workshop).
• "Relative Cohort Size: Source of a Unifying Theory of Global Fertility Transition?" , Population and Development Review, 26(2, June 2000):235-261 (appendix with full set of graphs for all countries)
• "The Role of Relative Income and Relative Cohort Size in the Demographic Transition." Population and Environment, 21(2, November 1999):155-192.
• "Relative Cohort Size and Inequality in the U.S." American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), May 1998,88(2):259-264.
• "The Fortunes of One's Birth: Relative Cohort Size and the Youth Labor Market in the U.S." Journal of Population Economics, 12(2,1999):215-272: journal article or working paper
• "Race and Relative Income/Price of Time Effects on U.S. Fertility," Journal of Socio-Economics, 27(3, 1998):365-400.
• "Fertility and the Easterlin Hypothesis: An Assessment of the Literature," Journal of Population Economics, 11(1998):1-59: journal article or working paper
• "Why the Baby Bust Cohorts Haven't Boomed Yet: A re-examination of cohort effects on wage inequality in the U.S." in Ray Marshall (ed.), Back to Shared Prosperity, Armonk, NY:M.E.Sharpe 2000.
• "Discussion Comments Related to 'Social Security: How social and how secure should it be?' by Steven Sass and Robert Triest," pp.64-73 in S.A.Sass and R.K.Triest (eds.), Social Security Reform: Links to Saving, Investment and Growth, Conference Series No.41, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, June 1997.
• "A Conversation with Richard Easterlin," Journal of Population Economics, 10(1997):119-136: journal article or working paper
• "An Impending Boom in the Demand for U.S. Higher Education Among 18-24 Year Olds?" Change, May/June 1997. Original working paper.
• "Social Security and Retirees: Two Views of the Projections -- An Economist's Perspective," pp. 43-67 in Peter A. Diamond, David Lindeman and Howard Young (editors), Social Security: What Role for the Future? National Academy of Social Insurance: Washington, DC (1996).
• "Relative Income and Price of Time: Exploring Their Effects on U.S. Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation," in Fertility in the United States: New Patterns, New Theories, Population and Development Review, supplement to Volume 22(1996):223-257.
• "A Review of Recent Developments in the Economics of Fertility," pp.91-150 in Paul Menchik (editor), Household and Family Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston (1996).
• "Echoes of the Baby Boom and Bust: Recent and Prospective Changes in Intergenerational Living Arrangements of Elderly Widows in the United States," (with R.A.Easterlin, E.M.Crimmins and C.Macdonald), Demography, February 1995, 32(1):17-28.
• "The Butz-Ward Fertility Model in the Light of More Recent Data," Journal of Human Resources, Spring 1995, (30)2:229-255.
• "Will the Baby Boomers Be Less Well Off Than Their Parents? Income, Wealth and Family Circumstances Over the Life Cycle," (with R.A.Easterlin and C.Schaeffer), Population and Development Review, September 1993, 19(3):497-522.
• "Economic Status of the Young and Old in the Working Age Population, 1964 and 1987," The Changing Contract Across Generations, Vern L.Bengtson and W.Andrew Achenbaum (eds), New York: Aldine DeGruyter, 1993, with Richard Easterlin and Eileen Crimmins.
• "How Parents Have Coped: The Effect of Life Cycle Demographic Decisions on the Economic Status of Pre-School Age Children, 1964-1987," Population and Development Review, June 1990, 16(2):299-323, with Richard A. Easterlin.
• "How Have the American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987," Journal of Population Economics, 3(4):277-290, 1990, with Richard A. Easterlin and Christine Macdonald.
• "Retirement Prospects of the Baby Boom Generation," The Gerontologist, Vol.30, No.6, 1990, with Richard A. Easterlin and Christine Macdonald.
• "Complex Demoeconomic Dynamics," Journal of Population Economics, (1989) 2:139-159, with Richard H. Day and Kyoo-Hong Kim.
• "Application of Granger-Sims Causality Tests to Monthly Fertility Data, 1958-1984," Journal of Population Economics, (1988)1:71-88, with Richard A. Easterlin.
• "School Failures: Now and Tomorrow," Developmental Psychology, 1969, Vol.1, No.2 134-146, with S. J. Fitzsimmons, J. Cheever and E. Leonard.

2. Book Reviews

• "Review of The New Economics of Human Behavior," by Mariano Tommasi and Kathryn Ierulli, Population and Development Review, March 1997, 23(1):191-192.
• "Review of From Parent to Child: Intrahousehold Allocations and Intergenerational Relations in the United States," by Jere Behrman, Robert Pollak and Paul Taubman, Economics of Education Review, 16(2,1997):187-192.
• "Review of Striking the Mother Lode in Science: the importance of age, place and time, by P.Stephan and S.Levin," Journal of Economic Literature, December 1993, XXXI(4):2018-2019.

3. Working Papers

• “Appendices and Working Papers for Birth Quake: The Baby Boom and Its After Shocks”
• “The Emergence of the ‘Career Woman’”, presented as the Carpenter Lecture at Middlebury College, April 24, 2000.
• "The Fortunes of One's Birth: Relative Cohort Size and the Wage Structure in the U.S."
• "Cohort Size Effects on U.S. Enrollment Decisions", April 1996, Williams Project on Higher Education Discussion Paper #36, Williams College.
• "Explaining the Labor Force Participation of Women 20-24", (with Ray C. Fair), March 1996, Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1116, Yale University. (In .tif format: can be opened using Windows’ Kodak Imaging program)
• "Marriage and Divorce in the U.S.: Evidence of Cohort Size Effects" revised April 1996, working paper, Dept. of Economics, Williams College.
• "Combining the Relative Income and New Home Economics Models of Fertility: A Theoretical Framework."