Fertility and Scarcity in America (eBook)

Peter H. Lindert (Autor)

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2015 | 1. Auflage
408 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7006-6 (ISBN)

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Scholars have charged population growth with lowering aggregate income per capita, depleting natural resources, reducing the quality of the environment, and causing more unequal distribution of income. Maintaining that the order of these concerns should be reversed, Peter H. Lindert emphasizes the tendency of higher fertility and population growth to heighten economic inequalities. His analysis also improves our knowledge of the ways in which economic developments affect fertility.The author develops an integrated model of fertility behavior featuring an original way of defining and measuring the relative cost of an extra child. U.S. fertility patterns in the twentieth century, he shows, are partially explained by the interplay of a model of intergenerational taste formation and fluctuation in relative child costs. His reinterpretation of patterns in the inequality of schooling and income in America highlights the role of fertility and other demographic forces. From the author's analysis it appears that concern over rapid population growth is more justified on income-distribution grounds than on grounds of effects on average per capita income. In showing that this is so, Professor Lindert describes how families' use of time has changed since the late nineteenth century.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: 1940 United States Census • An Essay on the Principle of Population • Behavioral Economics • budget constraint • Capital Cost • Capital Gain • Capital loss • Capital market imperfections • Commodity • cost-of-living index • cost reduction • Cross-sectional regression • Deflation • Demand For Labor • democracy in America • Demography • Depreciation • developed country • Disposable and discretionary income • Dummy variable (statistics) • Earnings • Economic cost • economic forces • Economic Growth • Economic history of the United States • Economic Inequality • Economic mobility • Economic Potential • Economics • Economy of the United States • Ernst Engel • Error Term • Expected utility hypothesis • expected value • Externality • Factor price • failure rate • family income • fertility • Fertility factor (demography) • Gender Pay Gap • gross national product • Human overpopulation • income • income distribution • income inequality in the united states • Income inequality metrics • Inequality for All • Infant Mortality • Inflation • Luxury Goods • Marginal cost • Marginal propensity to consume • Marginal propensity to save • marginal rate of substitution • Marginal return • marginal utility • Measures of national income and output • mortality rate • National Bureau of Economic Research • Negative Income Tax • Net Change • opportunity cost • Outside Earnings • Personal exemption (United States) • poor relief • Population Growth • Poverty • Price elasticity of demand • Price index • Psychic cost • Public Expenditure • purchasing power • rationing • Real versus nominal value (economics) • real wages • Recession • Relative Deprivation • Return on Capital • Sampling (Statistics) • Scarcity • shadow price • shortage • sibling • Socioeconomics • Socioeconomic Status • statistical significance • Tax • Tax deduction • The Limits to Growth • The Population Bomb • Thomas Robert Malthus • Total Cost • Total Factor Productivity • Total Fertility Rate • Unemployment • wage • Wage ratio • Wealth • Wealth in the United States
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7006-2 / 1400870062
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7006-6 / 9781400870066