Robert T Michael
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 223605 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert T Michael |
| NOMBRES | Robert T |
| APELLIDO | Michael |
| FIRMA | MICHAEL R T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 722 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Sex, Love, and Health in America
This work, a sequel to The Social Organization of Sexuality, explores controversial topics, such as teenage sexuality, sexual contact between adults and children, abortion, the role of cohabitation in the sexual satisfaction of couples and how sexual behaviour has changed in response to AIDS
Why So Many Children Are Poor
According to the official U.S. measure of poverty, in 1995 the child poverty rate in this country was nearly 21%, compared with an adult poverty rate of 11%. This article explores why, according to the official measure, there are so many poor children. Working from the premise that children are poor because they live with poor adults, the reasons for adult poverty are reviewed. Both economic forces and demographic trends have contributed to growi…
Measuring Poverty
Each year's poverty figures are anxiously awaited by policymakers, analysts, and the media. Yet questions are increasing about the 30-year-old measure as social and economic conditions change. In Measuring Poverty a distinguished panel provides policymakers with an up-to-date evaluation of * Concepts and procedures for deriving the poverty threshold, including adjustments for different family circumstances. * Definitions of family resources. * Pr…
Unintended Intimacies
Sex, Samples, and Response Errors
Social Organization and Sexual Choices
Monitoring Aids and Other Rare Population Events
This paper replicates and extends an earlier attempt to use data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to track the distribution of AIDS across demographic subgroups. (The GSS asks respondents whether they know a person with AIDS [PWA].) The gender, racial, age, and regional composition of the set of PWAs reported by GSS respondents is compared with that of the official AIDS cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In an attempt to…
Pay Equity
Americans and their sexual partners
Pay equity
Mother or Market? Effects of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children
This article uses the 1986 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set to investigate the impact of maternal employment on children's intellectual ability, as measured at the age of 4 by using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). Results from multivariate regression analysis show a statistically significant adverse effect of mother's employment on children's intellectual ability, but only for boys in higher income famili…
Allocation of Income Within the Household
Allocation of Income within the Household develops an important new economic model of income distribution within the family, one that attempts to determine which family characteristics affect spending patterns. Professors Lazear and Michael base their work on an analysis of the 1972-73 Consumer Expenditure Survey and test their conclusions against the 1960-61 survey to verify the persistence of the effects discovered. They find, for example, that…
Allocation of Income within the Household
Entry into marriage and parenthood by young men and women
We investigate the influence of family background on early entry into marriage and parenthood among white, Hispanic, and black men and women ages 14 to 22 in the first (1979) wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Family background is highly associated with early entry into marriage for whites of both genders and female Hispanics and also with early entry into parenthood for all groups except black males. Large group differences in fa…
Changes in the Propensity to Live Alone
The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income level appears to be a major determinant of the propensity to live alone. The estimated cross-state equations track about three-quarters of the increase in…
The rise in divorce rates, 1960–1974
This paper uses vital statistics data from 15 states in the Divorce Registration Area to decompose into age-specific components the rise in the aggregate divorce rate between 1960and 1974. While women in their twenties comprise only about 20 percent of the married population, they appear to have contributed over 60 percent of the growth in the divorce rate during the decade of the sixties
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability
This paper focuses on the causes of marital instability. Section I develops a theoretical analysis of marital dissolution, incorporating uncertainty about outcomes of marital decisions into a framework of utility maximization and the marriage market. Section II explores implications of the theoretical analysis with cross-sectional data, primarily the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the Terman sample. The relevance of both the theoretical …
On the New Theory of Consumer Behavior
This essay advocates a reformulation of the theory of consumer behavior, based on the household production function approach suggested in Becker's A Theory of the Allocation of Time [1]. The case for the reformulation rests, in part, on inadequacies of the traditional theory of choice, and more importantly, on the new approach's capacity to generate a wide range of cogent testable hypotheses and to provide the social scientist with tools relevant…
Education and the Derived Demand for Children
Education in Nonmarket Production
Since an investment in human capital yields a return through time spent in the labor market, it may also yield a return through time spent in productive activities outside the labor market. This paper explores a framework in which these "nonmarket" returns may be analyzed. The model is implemented empirically to test implications pertaining to the partial effect of formal schooling on expenditure patterns and to estimate the magnitude of the nonm…
Economic Theory
Journal Article Becker (G. S.). Economic Theory Get access Economic Theory. By Gary S. Becker, with the assistance of Michael Grossman and Robert T. Michael. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Pp. xii + 222. $9.50.) A. Sutherland A. Sutherland Trinity College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 327, 1 September 1972, Pages 1064–1067, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230…
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability
This paper focuses on the causes of marital instability. Section I develops a theoretical analysis of marital dissolution, incorporating uncertainty about outcomes of marital decisions into a framework of utility maximization and the marriage market. Section II explores implications of the theoretical analysis with cross-sectional data, primarily the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the Terman sample. The relevance of both the theoretical …
Entry into marriage and parenthood by young men and women
We investigate the influence of family background on early entry into marriage and parenthood among white, Hispanic, and black men and women ages 14 to 22 in the first (1979) wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Family background is highly associated with early entry into marriage for whites of both genders and female Hispanics and also with early entry into parenthood for all groups except black males. Large group differences in fa…
Changes in the Propensity to Live Alone
The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income level appears to be a major determinant of the propensity to live alone. The estimated cross-state equations track about three-quarters of the increase in…
Education and the Derived Demand for Children
Mother or Market? Effects of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children
This article uses the 1986 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set to investigate the impact of maternal employment on children's intellectual ability, as measured at the age of 4 by using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). Results from multivariate regression analysis show a statistically significant adverse effect of mother's employment on children's intellectual ability, but only for boys in higher income famili…
Education in Nonmarket Production
Since an investment in human capital yields a return through time spent in the labor market, it may also yield a return through time spent in productive activities outside the labor market. This paper explores a framework in which these "nonmarket" returns may be analyzed. The model is implemented empirically to test implications pertaining to the partial effect of formal schooling on expenditure patterns and to estimate the magnitude of the nonm…
Why So Many Children Are Poor
According to the official U.S. measure of poverty, in 1995 the child poverty rate in this country was nearly 21%, compared with an adult poverty rate of 11%. This article explores why, according to the official measure, there are so many poor children. Working from the premise that children are poor because they live with poor adults, the reasons for adult poverty are reviewed. Both economic forces and demographic trends have contributed to growi…
The rise in divorce rates, 1960–1974
This paper uses vital statistics data from 15 states in the Divorce Registration Area to decompose into age-specific components the rise in the aggregate divorce rate between 1960and 1974. While women in their twenties comprise only about 20 percent of the married population, they appear to have contributed over 60 percent of the growth in the divorce rate during the decade of the sixties
Monitoring Aids and Other Rare Population Events
This paper replicates and extends an earlier attempt to use data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to track the distribution of AIDS across demographic subgroups. (The GSS asks respondents whether they know a person with AIDS [PWA].) The gender, racial, age, and regional composition of the set of PWAs reported by GSS respondents is compared with that of the official AIDS cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In an attempt to…
Americans and their sexual partners
Economic Theory
Journal Article Becker (G. S.). Economic Theory Get access Economic Theory. By Gary S. Becker, with the assistance of Michael Grossman and Robert T. Michael. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Pp. xii + 222. $9.50.) A. Sutherland A. Sutherland Trinity College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 327, 1 September 1972, Pages 1064–1067, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230…
On the New Theory of Consumer Behavior
This essay advocates a reformulation of the theory of consumer behavior, based on the household production function approach suggested in Becker's A Theory of the Allocation of Time [1]. The case for the reformulation rests, in part, on inadequacies of the traditional theory of choice, and more importantly, on the new approach's capacity to generate a wide range of cogent testable hypotheses and to provide the social scientist with tools relevant…
Education and the Derived Demand for Children
Education in Nonmarket Production
Since an investment in human capital yields a return through time spent in the labor market, it may also yield a return through time spent in productive activities outside the labor market. This paper explores a framework in which these "nonmarket" returns may be analyzed. The model is implemented empirically to test implications pertaining to the partial effect of formal schooling on expenditure patterns and to estimate the magnitude of the nonm…
An Economic Analysis of Marital Instability
This paper focuses on the causes of marital instability. Section I develops a theoretical analysis of marital dissolution, incorporating uncertainty about outcomes of marital decisions into a framework of utility maximization and the marriage market. Section II explores implications of the theoretical analysis with cross-sectional data, primarily the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the Terman sample. The relevance of both the theoretical …
The rise in divorce rates, 1960–1974
This paper uses vital statistics data from 15 states in the Divorce Registration Area to decompose into age-specific components the rise in the aggregate divorce rate between 1960and 1974. While women in their twenties comprise only about 20 percent of the married population, they appear to have contributed over 60 percent of the growth in the divorce rate during the decade of the sixties
Changes in the Propensity to Live Alone
The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income level appears to be a major determinant of the propensity to live alone. The estimated cross-state equations track about three-quarters of the increase in…
Entry into marriage and parenthood by young men and women
We investigate the influence of family background on early entry into marriage and parenthood among white, Hispanic, and black men and women ages 14 to 22 in the first (1979) wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Family background is highly associated with early entry into marriage for whites of both genders and female Hispanics and also with early entry into parenthood for all groups except black males. Large group differences in fa…
Pay equity
Mother or Market? Effects of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children
This article uses the 1986 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set to investigate the impact of maternal employment on children's intellectual ability, as measured at the age of 4 by using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). Results from multivariate regression analysis show a statistically significant adverse effect of mother's employment on children's intellectual ability, but only for boys in higher income famili…
Allocation of Income Within the Household
Allocation of Income within the Household develops an important new economic model of income distribution within the family, one that attempts to determine which family characteristics affect spending patterns. Professors Lazear and Michael base their work on an analysis of the 1972-73 Consumer Expenditure Survey and test their conclusions against the 1960-61 survey to verify the persistence of the effects discovered. They find, for example, that…
Allocation of Income within the Household
Americans and their sexual partners
Pay Equity
Monitoring Aids and Other Rare Population Events
This paper replicates and extends an earlier attempt to use data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to track the distribution of AIDS across demographic subgroups. (The GSS asks respondents whether they know a person with AIDS [PWA].) The gender, racial, age, and regional composition of the set of PWAs reported by GSS respondents is compared with that of the official AIDS cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In an attempt to…
Measuring Poverty
Each year's poverty figures are anxiously awaited by policymakers, analysts, and the media. Yet questions are increasing about the 30-year-old measure as social and economic conditions change. In Measuring Poverty a distinguished panel provides policymakers with an up-to-date evaluation of * Concepts and procedures for deriving the poverty threshold, including adjustments for different family circumstances. * Definitions of family resources. * Pr…
Unintended Intimacies
Sex, Samples, and Response Errors
Social Organization and Sexual Choices
Why So Many Children Are Poor
According to the official U.S. measure of poverty, in 1995 the child poverty rate in this country was nearly 21%, compared with an adult poverty rate of 11%. This article explores why, according to the official measure, there are so many poor children. Working from the premise that children are poor because they live with poor adults, the reasons for adult poverty are reviewed. Both economic forces and demographic trends have contributed to growi…
Sex, Love, and Health in America
This work, a sequel to The Social Organization of Sexuality, explores controversial topics, such as teenage sexuality, sexual contact between adults and children, abortion, the role of cohabitation in the sexual satisfaction of couples and how sexual behaviour has changed in response to AIDS
Economics (14 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (10 obras) · Demographic economics (7 obras) · Demography (6 obras) · Demography (5 obras) · Population (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (4 obras)