David Lam

Affiliated Programs:

Cape Area Panel Study

Funded Research:

Collaborative Social Science Research and Training in South Africa (Mellon)

Conference on Interactions Between Poverty and HIV/AIDS (NICHD)

Families, Communities and Youth Outcomes in South Africa (NICHD)

Family Support and Rapid Social Change in South Africa (NICHD)

Fertility, Intergenerational Transfers, and Economic Development in South Africa (Hewlett)

Health and Society Scholars Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Population Research Infrastructure Support (NICHD)

Research Training in Population Health in China and South Africa (Fogarty)

Social Science Training in Population Studies (NICHD)

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Lam specializes in the application of microeconomic theory to demographic behavior and the interaction of population dynamics and economic variables. Current research projects concern fertility and female labor supply in Brazil, the economics of marriage markets, the effects of age structure on wage profiles, the effects of demographic change on the distribution of income, and the determinants of seasonality in fertility.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Dinkelman, Taryn, David Lam, and Murray Leibbrandt. 2008. "Linking Poverty and Income Shocks to Risky Sexual Behavior: Evidence from a Panel Study of Young Adults in Cape Town." South African Journal of Economics, 76(S1): 53-74. PMCID:PMC2546606. DOI:10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00170.x. Licensed Access.

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2008. "Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child’s Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Children’s Resources." Population and Development Review, 34(2): 225-252. PMCID:PMC2546613. DOI:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2008.00218.x. Licensed Access.

Marteleto, Leticia, Lam, David, and Vimal Ranchhod. 2008. "Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, and Schooling Among Young People in Urban South Africa." Studies in Family Planning, 39(4): 351-368. DOI:10.1111/j.1728-4465.2008.00180.x. Public Access. Worldcat.

Duryea, Suzanne, David Lam, and Deborah Levison. 2007. "Effects of Economic Shocks on Children's Employment and Schooling in Brazil." Journal of Development Economics, 84(1): 188-214. PMCID:PMC2094529. DOI:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.11.004. Licensed Access.

Lam, David. 2007. "The Demography and Economics of the World's `Youth Bulge'." Development Outreach, June.

Dinkelman, Taryn, David Lam, and Murray Leibbrandt. 2007. "Household and community income, economic shocks and risky sexual behavior of young adults: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002 and 2005." AIDS, 21 Suppl 7: 49-56. PMCID:PMC2538362. DOI:10.1097/01.aids.0000300535.05226.a9. Licensed Access.

Levison, Deborah, Jasper Hoek, David Lam, and Suzanne Duryea. 2007. "Intermittent child employment and its implications for estimates of child labour." International Labour Review, 146(3-4): 217-251. PMCID:PMC2546602. DOI:10.1111/j.1564-913X.2007.00014.x. Licensed Access.

Ardington, Cally, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, and Matthew Welch. 2006. "The sensitivity to key data imputations of recent estimates of income poverty and inequality in South Africa." Economic Modelling, 23(5): 822-835. PMCID:PMC2546610. DOI:10.1016/j.econmod.2005.10.009. Licensed Access.

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2006. "A Escolaridade das Crianças Brasileiras durante a Transicão Demográfica: Aumento no Tamanho da Coorte versus Diminuicão no Tamanho da Família." Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico (PPE), 36(2): 319-341.

Ardington, C., David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, and James A. Levinsohn. 2004. "Savings, insurance and debt over the post-apartheid period: A review of recent research." South African Journal of Economics, 72(3): 604-640.

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