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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Overview: The Birth Quake and Its Aftershocks
- 1 Population Growth and Relative Cohort Size
- 2 Male Relative Income and Its Significance
- 3 Defining Variables
- 4 Patterns of Male Relative Income over the Years
- 5 First-Order Effects of Relative Cohort Size
- 6 Effects of Relative Cohort Size on Inequality and the Overall Structure of Wages
- 7 Women's Roles
- 8 Boom and Bust Cycles in College Enrollment Rates
- 9 Effects of Changing Male Relative Income on Marriage and Divorce
- 10 The Disappearance of the Marriage Wage Premium
- 11 Relative Cohort Size and Fertility
- 12 Relative Cohort Size Effects—Even in Developing Countries
- 13 Aggregate Demand Effects of Changing Population Age Structure
- 14 Population-Induced Economic Slumps
- 15 Macroeconomic Correlations: GDP Growth, Inflation, Savings Rates, and the Stock Market
- 16 Conclusion
- Appendix A Expectations in the Williams College Class of 1999
- Appendix B Data for Figure 4.1
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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- Source:
- Birth Quake
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Overview: The Birth Quake and Its Aftershocks
- 1 Population Growth and Relative Cohort Size
- 2 Male Relative Income and Its Significance
- 3 Defining Variables
- 4 Patterns of Male Relative Income over the Years
- 5 First-Order Effects of Relative Cohort Size
- 6 Effects of Relative Cohort Size on Inequality and the Overall Structure of Wages
- 7 Women's Roles
- 8 Boom and Bust Cycles in College Enrollment Rates
- 9 Effects of Changing Male Relative Income on Marriage and Divorce
- 10 The Disappearance of the Marriage Wage Premium
- 11 Relative Cohort Size and Fertility
- 12 Relative Cohort Size Effects—Even in Developing Countries
- 13 Aggregate Demand Effects of Changing Population Age Structure
- 14 Population-Induced Economic Slumps
- 15 Macroeconomic Correlations: GDP Growth, Inflation, Savings Rates, and the Stock Market
- 16 Conclusion
- Appendix A Expectations in the Williams College Class of 1999
- Appendix B Data for Figure 4.1
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
