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Is There A Case For A "Second Demographic Transition"?: Three Distinctive Features Of The Post-1960 Us Fertility Decline, Martha Bailey, Melanie Guldi, Brad Hershbein
Is There A Case For A "Second Demographic Transition"?: Three Distinctive Features Of The Post-1960 Us Fertility Decline, Martha Bailey, Melanie Guldi, Brad Hershbein
Brad J. Hershbein
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Economics In A Family Way, Ted Bergstrom
Economics In A Family Way, Ted Bergstrom
Ted C Bergstrom
This paper is an advertisement for some facts and ideas that I think likely to lead to a richer theory of the economics of the family. The discussion references many papers from anthropology and biology. Because of the intimate connection between the family and reproduction, it should not be surprising that there is much to be learned about the economics of the family from the study of evolutionary biology. Given the increased prevalence in recent decades of unwed parenthood, divorce with sequential monogamy, and ``non-traditional'' family arrangements, it seems that anthropological studies of alternative family structures would help us to …
Can Courtship Be Cheatproof?, Ted Bergstrom, Richard Manning
Can Courtship Be Cheatproof?, Ted Bergstrom, Richard Manning
Ted C Bergstrom
In 1983, I told Richard Manning about Gale and Shapley's beautiful 1962 paper on matching. He asked whether in the Gale-Shapley it was in the interest of all participants to tell the truth. We rather quickly showed that in general it is not in the interest of the recipients of offers to be truthful. In fact we were able to show that no mechanism can guarantee efficient assignments and be cheatproof. We were very pleased. We sent it to a journal, only to learn that Al Roth had beat us to it in a paper that was to appear in …