1997 ECONOMIC DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
POPULATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, March 26, 1997
SESSION I: 1:00-2:30 - Development
Chair: Jacob A. Klerman, RAND
John Maluccio - Yale University
"Endogeneity of Schooling in the Wage Function"
Annabel Perkins - Cornell University
"Fertility and Household Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Large is the Husband's
Influence?"
DISCUSSANT: Hanan Jacoby, University of Rochester
SESSION II: 2:40-4:10 - Migration
Chair: Robert Schoeni, RAND
Michael Ian Cragg - RAND
Mathew E. Kahn - Columbia University
"Migration's Role in Regional Adjustment: City Level Evidence of Spatial Arbitrage"
Rachel Friedberg - Brown University and NBER
"The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market"
Discussant: David Jaeger, Bureau of Labor Statistics
SESSION III: 4:20-5:50 - Historical Demography
Chair: Liz Peters, Cornell
Judith W. Mills - Southern Connecticut State University
"Marital Fertility: Does Return on Financial Assets Matter in Developing Economies,
the Case of England 1700-1870"
Hajime H. Hadeishi - University of California Los Angeles
"Economic Well-Being and Fertility: France Before the Fertility and Political
Revolution"
Discussant: Douglas Galbi, Cambridge University