David Lam's Select 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.

Lam, David, and Kermyt G. Anderson. 2001. "Causes and Consequences of Schooling Outcomes in South Africa: Evidence from Survey Data." Social Dynamics, 27(1): 37-59.

Lam, David, and Suzanne Duryea. 1999. "Effects of Schooling on Fertility, Labor Supply, and Investments in Children, with Evidence from Brazil." The Journal of Human Resources, 34(1): 160-192. Reprint No. 573.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, David Lam, and Jane B. Lancaster. 1999. "Paternal Care by Genetic Fathers and Stepfathers II: Reports by Xhosa High School Students." Evolution and Human Behavior, 20(6): 433-451.

Anh, Truong Si, John E. Knodel, David Lam, and Jed Friedman. 1998. "Family Size and Children's Education in Vietnam." Demography, 35(1): 57-70. Reprint No. 550.

Lam, David, and Jeffrey A. Miron. 1996. "The Effect of Temperature on Human Fertility." Demography, 33(3): 291-305. Reprint No. 507.

Lam, David, and Robert F. Schoeni. 1994. "Family Ties and Labor Markets in the United States and Brazil." The Journal of Human Resources, 29(4): 1235-58. Reprint No. 453.

Lam, David, and Jeffrey A. Miron. 1994. "Global Patterns of Seasonal Variation in Human Fertility." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 709: 9-28. Reprint No. 440.

Lam, David, Jeffrey A. Miron, and Ann Riley. 1994. "Modeling Seasonality in Fecundability, Conceptions, and Births." Demography, 31(2): 321-46. Reprint No. 439.

Lam, David, and Robert F. Schoeni. 1993. "Effects of Family Background on Earnings and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from Brazil." Journal of Political Economy, 101(4): 710-40. Reprint No. 421.

Lam, David. 1993. "Comment on Preston and Campbell's "Differential Fertility and the Distribution of Traits"." American Journal of Sociology, 98: 1033-39. Reprint No. 404.

Lam, David, and Deborah Levison. 1992. "Age, Experience, and Schooling: Decomposing Earnings Inequality in the United States and Brazil." Sociological Inquiry, 62(2): 218-45. Reprint No. 384.

Lam, David, and Deborah Levison. 1992. "Declining Inequality in Schooling in Brazil and Its Effects on Inequality in Earnings." Journal of Developmental Economics, 37: 199-225. Reprint No. 370.

Lam, David, and Jeffrey A. Miron. 1991. "Seasonality of Births in Human Populations." Social Biology, 38: 51-78. Reprint No. 367.

Lam, David, and Deborah Levison. 1990. "Idade, Experiencia, Escolaridade e Diferenciais de Renda: Estados Unidos e Brasil." Pesquisa e Planejamento Economico, 20: 219-56. Reprint No. 366.

Lam, David. 1989. "Population Growth, Age Structure, and Age-Specific Productivity." Journal of Population Economics, 2: 189-210. Reprint No. 320.

Bergstrom, Theodore, and David Lam. 1989. "Recovering Event Histories by Cubic Spline Interpolation." Mathematical Population Studies, 1(4): 327-55. Reprint No. 314.

Lam, David. 1988. "Marriage Markets and Assortative Mating with Household Public Goods: Theoretical Results and Empirical Implications." The Journal of Human Resources, 23(4): 462-87. Reprint No. 306.

Lam, David. 1988. "Lorenz Curves, Inequality, and Social Welfare under Changing Population Composition." Journal of Policy Modeling, 10(1): 141-62. Reprint No. 298.

Lam, David. 1986. "The Dynamics of Population Growth, Differential Fertility, and Inequality." American Economic Review, 76(5): 1103-16. Reprint No. 278.

Lam, David. 1984. "The Variance of Poulation Characteristics in Stable Populations, with Applications to the Distribution of Income." Population Studies, 38(1): 117-27. Reprint No. 232.

Chapters

Lam, David, Murray Leibbrandt, and Vimal Ranchhod. 2006. "Labor Force Withdrawal of the Elderly in South Africa." In Advancing the Research Agenda on Aging in Africa edited by Jane Menken and Barney Cohen. Washington DC : National Academies Press.

Duryea, Suzanne, David Lam, Jasper Hoek, and Deborah Levison. 2005. "Dynamics of Child Labor: Labor Force Entry and Exit in Urban Brazil." In Eradicating Child Labor in Latin America in the 90s: The Promise of Demand Side Interventions edited by G. Sedlacek and P. Orazem. Washington, DC: World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. Abstract.

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2005. "Small Families and Large Cohorts: The Impact of the Demographic Transition on Schooling in Brazil." In Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries edited by Cynthia B. Lloyd. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2005. "Small families and large cohorts : the impact of the demographic transition on schooling in Brazil." In The changing transitions to adulthood in developing countries : selected studies edited by Cynthia Lloyd. 56-83. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

Lam, David. 2003. "Evolutionary Biology and Rational Choice in Models of Fertility." In Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective edited by K.W. Wachter and R. Bulatao. Pp. 322-338. Washington DC : National Academies Press.Reprint No. 601. Abstract.

Lam, David. 2002. "Gary S. Becker." In The Encyclopedia of Population. edited by P. Demeny and G. McNicoll. New York: Macmillan.

Lam, David. 2001. "Income Distribution: Demographic Aspects." In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences edited by Paul Baltes and Neil Smelser. pp. 7271-7273. New York : Elsevier. Abstract.

Lam, David. 1997. "Demographic Variables and Income Inequality." In Handbook of Population and Family Economics edited by Mark K. Rosenzweig and Oded Stark. New York: Elsevier Science.Reprint No. 546.

Bergstrom, Theodore, and David Lam. 1994. "The Effects of Cohort Size on Marriage-Markets in Twentieth-Century Sweden." In The Family, the Market, and the State in Ageing Societies edited by J. Ermisch and N. Ogawa. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.Reprint No. 454. Abstract.

Lam, David, and Jeffrey A. Miron. 1991. "Temperature and the Seasonality of Births." In Temperature and Environmental Effects on the Testis edited by A.W. Zorgnoitti. Pp. 73-88. New York, NY: Plenum Press.Reprint No. 354. Abstract.

Lam, David. 1987. "Distribution Issues in the Relationship between Population Growth and Economic Development." In Population Growth and Economic Development: Issues and Evidence edited by D. Gale Johnson and Ronald Demos Lee. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.Reprint No. 286.

Conference Proceedings

Marteleto, Leticia, David Lam, and Vimal Ranchhod. 2006. "Sexual Behavior, Childbearing, Union Formation and Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Panel Data." IUSSP Seminar, El Colegio de México Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 6-9 November,

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2005. "Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child's Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Schooling." Annals of the XXV International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Tours, France: July.

PSC Reports

Dinkelman, Taryn, and David Lam. 2009. "A Model for Understanding Gender Discrepancies in Sexual Behavior Reports." PSC Research Report No. 09-669. January 2009. Abstract. PDF.

Lam, David, Cally Ardington, and Murray Leibbrandt. 2008. "Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa." PSC Research Report No. 08-632. February 2008. Abstract. PDF.

Marteleto, Leticia, David Lam, and Vimal Ranchhod. 2006. "Schooling and Early Childbearing in Urban South Africa." PSC Research Report No. 06-610. October 2006. Abstract. PDF.

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2006. "Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child’s Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Children’s Resources." PSC Research Report No. 06-591. March 2006. Abstract. PDF.

Duryea, Suzanne, David Lam, and Deborah Levison. 2003. "Effects of Economic Shocks on Children's Employment and Schooling in Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 03-541. December 2003. Abstract. PDF.

Levison, Deborah, Jasper Hoek, David Lam, and Suzanne Duryea. 2003. "Implications of Intermittent Employment for Child Labor Estimates." PSC Research Report No. 03-539. October 2003. Abstract. PDF.

Lam, David, and Leticia Marteleto. 2002. "Small Families and Large Cohorts: The Impact of the Demographic Transition on Schooling in Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 02-519. August 2002. Abstract. PDF.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Anne Case, and David Lam. 2001. "Causes and Consequences of Schooling Outcomes in South Africa: Evidence from Survey Data." PSC Research Report No. 01-490. October 2001. Abstract. PDF.

Lam, David. 1999. "Generating Extreme Inequality: Schooling, Earnings, and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in South Africa and Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 99-439. August 1999. Abstract. PDF.

Lam, David. 1997. "Demographic Variables and Income Inequality." PSC Research Report No. 97-385. April 1997. Abstract.

Lam, David, and Suzanne Duryea. 1995. "Effects of Schooling on Fertility, Labor Supply, and Investments in Children, with Evidence from Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 95-351. November 1995. Abstract.

Lam, David, and Jeffrey A. Miron. 1993. "The Effects of the Weather on Fertility in Human Populations." PSC Research Report No. 93-291. September 1993. Abstract.

Lam, David, and Robert F. Schoeni. 1993. "Family Ties and Labor Markets in the United States and Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 93-283. July 1993. Abstract.

Lam, David, Guilherme Sedlacek, and Suzanne Duryea. 1992. "Increases in Women's Education and Fertility Decline in Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 92-255. September 1992. Abstract.

Lam, David, Jeffrey A. Miron, and Ann Riley. 1992. "Modeling Seasonality in Fecundability and Births." PSC Research Report No. 92-244. July 1992. Abstract.

Bergstrom, Theodore, and David Lam. 1989. "The Effects of Cohort Size on Marriage Markets in Twentieth Century Sweden." PSC Research Report No. 89-171. November 1989. Abstract.

Lam, David, and Deborah Levison. 1989. "Declining Inequality in Schooling in Brazil and Its Effects on Inequality in Earnings." PSC Research Report No. 89-170. November 1989. Abstract.

Lam, David. 1988. "Population Growth, Age Structure, and Age-Specific Productivity: Does a Uniform Age Distribution Minimize Lifetime Wages?" PSC Research Report No. 88-121. June 1988.

Lam, David. 1988. "Marriage Markets and Assortative Mating with Household Public Goods." PSC Research Report No. 88-120. June 1988.

Lam, David, and Jeffrey A. Miron. 1987. "The Seasonality of Births in Human Populations." PSC Research Report No. 87-114. September 1987.

Lam, David, and Deborah Levison. 1987. "Age, Experience, and Schooling: Decomposing Earnings Inequality in the U.S. and Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 87-112. August 1987.

Lam, David. 1986. "Lorenz Curves and Inequality Comparisons under Changing Population Composition." PSC Research Report No. 86-92. April 1986.

Lam, David. 1985. "The Dynamics of Population Growth, Differential Fertility, and Inequality." PSC Research Report No. 85-69. April 1985.

Other Reports

Lam, David. 2006. "The demography of youth in developing countries and its economic implications." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4022. Abstract.

Lam, David, Murray Leibbrandt, and Vimal Ranchhod. 2005. "Labour force withdrawal of the elderly in South Africa." University of Cape Town, Centre for Social Science Research Working Paper 05-118. Abstract.

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