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