Morton Owen Schapiro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 368661 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Morton Owen Schapiro |
| NOMBRES | Morton Owen |
| APELLIDO | Schapiro |
| FIRMA | SCHAPIRO M O |
| AFILIACIONES | Williams College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Staffing the Higher Education Classroom
We discuss some centrally important decisions faced by colleges and universities regarding how to staff their undergraduate classrooms. We describe the multitasking problem faced by research-intensive institutions and explore the degree to which there may be a trade-off between research and teaching excellence using matched student-faculty-level data from Northwestern University. We present two alternative measures of teaching effectiveness—one c…
Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers
This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus contingent faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student’s first term at Northwestern and employ an identification strategy in which we control for both student-level fixed effects and next-class-taken fixed effects to measure the degre…
Tenure Issues in Higher Education
The system of academic tenure has come under increasing scrutiny. The authors provide a brief review of the tenure literature, discuss some recent tenure controversies, and present basic data on the percentage of faculty subject to the tenure system. The issue of tenure is discussed in terms of how the authority necessary to run a college or university is delegated. The authors believe that this perspective sheds light on some underlying reasons …
Microeconomics of College Choice, Careers, and Wages
Understanding the economic payoff to human capital investments is very important from the standpoint both of individuals and of society. However, this article argues that correctly estimating these impacts necessitates having a well-developed idea of the microeconomic determinants of human behavior. Without this, empirical analyses of such topics as career choice, college choice, or wage determination will be flawed. The authors begin the article…
The Student Aid Game
Keeping College Affordable
Journal Article Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity Get access Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity. By (MICHAEL S.) Mgpherson and SCHAPIRO (MORTON OWEN). (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1991. Pp. xv + 262. US $29.95 hardback, US $12.95 paperback. ISBN 0 8157 5642 9, 0 8157 5641 0.) Gareth Williams Gareth Williams Centre for Higher Education Studies, London University Institut…
Kenya's export of horticultural commodities
As a result of the government's encouragement, the volume of fresh horticultural exports from Kenya rose almost 25‐fold between 1968 and 1986, becoming a major source of foreign exchange. This has happened without sacrificing the production of coffee and tea, small landholders, and the nutritional needs of the population. Despite continuing problems, this success has been achieved largely because of the government's careful attention to research,…
Filling up America
Socio-economic effects of relative income and relative cohort size
Filling Up America
Journal Article Filling Up America: An Economic-Demographic Model of Population Growth and Distribution in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Morton Owen Schapiro. (Greenwich: Jai Press, 1986. xiii + 149 pp. $24.75.) Get access Maris A. Vinovskis Maris A. Vinovskis University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages …
Socioeconomic ramifications of changing cohort size
This paper presents a relative cohort size model of suicide. The model states that as relative cohort size (the ratio of younger to older workers) rises, income and income aspirations diverge for the young. One possible extreme reaction to this disequilibrium is suicide. The model explains the variation in age- and sex-specific suicide rates for the United States over the period 1948 to 1976. It identifies the direct effect of changes in cohort s…
Inheritance Laws Across Colonies
We examine in this paper both the causes and consequences of inheritance laws in the colonies. We argue that the continuation of intestate inheritance laws over the colonial period was due in part to their compatibility with economic efficiency. In the North, multigeniture helped motivate family labor, whereas the passive acceptance of the British inheritance system of primogeniture in the South rested on its promotion of large plantations that c…
Land Availability and Fertility in the United States, 1760–1870
The decline in U.S. fertility rates, beginning in the latter part of the eighteenth century, is examined within a general model of fertility determination. The ability of land availability measures to explain the variation in components of the crude birth rate is tested using a pooled regression technique. A set of crude birth rate predictions for rural areas of 23 northern states during the period 1760–1870 is produced and compared with other es…
Homicide and fertility rates in the United States
The negative correlation between annual homicide and fertility rates reported by Lyster (1974) is confirmed by statistical analysis extended to show that the correlation is largely confined to the post-World War 2 and holds for whites and nonwhites in nearly equal degree. Data support the hypothesis that homicide and fertility rates are responding to variations in psychological stress among young adults associated with swings in relative cohort s…
Land Availability and Fertility in the United States, 1760–1870
The decline in U.S. fertility rates, beginning in the latter part of the eighteenth century, is examined within a general model of fertility determination. The ability of land availability measures to explain the variation in components of the crude birth rate is tested using a pooled regression technique. A set of crude birth rate predictions for rural areas of 23 northern states during the period 1760–1870 is produced and compared with other es…
Socioeconomic ramifications of changing cohort size
This paper presents a relative cohort size model of suicide. The model states that as relative cohort size (the ratio of younger to older workers) rises, income and income aspirations diverge for the young. One possible extreme reaction to this disequilibrium is suicide. The model explains the variation in age- and sex-specific suicide rates for the United States over the period 1948 to 1976. It identifies the direct effect of changes in cohort s…
Inheritance Laws Across Colonies
We examine in this paper both the causes and consequences of inheritance laws in the colonies. We argue that the continuation of intestate inheritance laws over the colonial period was due in part to their compatibility with economic efficiency. In the North, multigeniture helped motivate family labor, whereas the passive acceptance of the British inheritance system of primogeniture in the South rested on its promotion of large plantations that c…
Tenure Issues in Higher Education
The system of academic tenure has come under increasing scrutiny. The authors provide a brief review of the tenure literature, discuss some recent tenure controversies, and present basic data on the percentage of faculty subject to the tenure system. The issue of tenure is discussed in terms of how the authority necessary to run a college or university is delegated. The authors believe that this perspective sheds light on some underlying reasons …
Homicide and fertility rates in the United States
The negative correlation between annual homicide and fertility rates reported by Lyster (1974) is confirmed by statistical analysis extended to show that the correlation is largely confined to the post-World War 2 and holds for whites and nonwhites in nearly equal degree. Data support the hypothesis that homicide and fertility rates are responding to variations in psychological stress among young adults associated with swings in relative cohort s…
Microeconomics of College Choice, Careers, and Wages
Understanding the economic payoff to human capital investments is very important from the standpoint both of individuals and of society. However, this article argues that correctly estimating these impacts necessitates having a well-developed idea of the microeconomic determinants of human behavior. Without this, empirical analyses of such topics as career choice, college choice, or wage determination will be flawed. The authors begin the article…
Kenya's export of horticultural commodities
As a result of the government's encouragement, the volume of fresh horticultural exports from Kenya rose almost 25‐fold between 1968 and 1986, becoming a major source of foreign exchange. This has happened without sacrificing the production of coffee and tea, small landholders, and the nutritional needs of the population. Despite continuing problems, this success has been achieved largely because of the government's careful attention to research,…
The Student Aid Game
Keeping College Affordable
Journal Article Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity Get access Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity. By (MICHAEL S.) Mgpherson and SCHAPIRO (MORTON OWEN). (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1991. Pp. xv + 262. US $29.95 hardback, US $12.95 paperback. ISBN 0 8157 5642 9, 0 8157 5641 0.) Gareth Williams Gareth Williams Centre for Higher Education Studies, London University Institut…
Homicide and fertility rates in the United States
The negative correlation between annual homicide and fertility rates reported by Lyster (1974) is confirmed by statistical analysis extended to show that the correlation is largely confined to the post-World War 2 and holds for whites and nonwhites in nearly equal degree. Data support the hypothesis that homicide and fertility rates are responding to variations in psychological stress among young adults associated with swings in relative cohort s…
Land Availability and Fertility in the United States, 1760–1870
The decline in U.S. fertility rates, beginning in the latter part of the eighteenth century, is examined within a general model of fertility determination. The ability of land availability measures to explain the variation in components of the crude birth rate is tested using a pooled regression technique. A set of crude birth rate predictions for rural areas of 23 northern states during the period 1760–1870 is produced and compared with other es…
Socioeconomic ramifications of changing cohort size
This paper presents a relative cohort size model of suicide. The model states that as relative cohort size (the ratio of younger to older workers) rises, income and income aspirations diverge for the young. One possible extreme reaction to this disequilibrium is suicide. The model explains the variation in age- and sex-specific suicide rates for the United States over the period 1948 to 1976. It identifies the direct effect of changes in cohort s…
Inheritance Laws Across Colonies
We examine in this paper both the causes and consequences of inheritance laws in the colonies. We argue that the continuation of intestate inheritance laws over the colonial period was due in part to their compatibility with economic efficiency. In the North, multigeniture helped motivate family labor, whereas the passive acceptance of the British inheritance system of primogeniture in the South rested on its promotion of large plantations that c…
Filling Up America
Journal Article Filling Up America: An Economic-Demographic Model of Population Growth and Distribution in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Morton Owen Schapiro. (Greenwich: Jai Press, 1986. xiii + 149 pp. $24.75.) Get access Maris A. Vinovskis Maris A. Vinovskis University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages …
Filling up America
Socio-economic effects of relative income and relative cohort size
Kenya's export of horticultural commodities
As a result of the government's encouragement, the volume of fresh horticultural exports from Kenya rose almost 25‐fold between 1968 and 1986, becoming a major source of foreign exchange. This has happened without sacrificing the production of coffee and tea, small landholders, and the nutritional needs of the population. Despite continuing problems, this success has been achieved largely because of the government's careful attention to research,…
Keeping College Affordable
Journal Article Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity Get access Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity. By (MICHAEL S.) Mgpherson and SCHAPIRO (MORTON OWEN). (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1991. Pp. xv + 262. US $29.95 hardback, US $12.95 paperback. ISBN 0 8157 5642 9, 0 8157 5641 0.) Gareth Williams Gareth Williams Centre for Higher Education Studies, London University Institut…
Microeconomics of College Choice, Careers, and Wages
Understanding the economic payoff to human capital investments is very important from the standpoint both of individuals and of society. However, this article argues that correctly estimating these impacts necessitates having a well-developed idea of the microeconomic determinants of human behavior. Without this, empirical analyses of such topics as career choice, college choice, or wage determination will be flawed. The authors begin the article…
The Student Aid Game
Tenure Issues in Higher Education
The system of academic tenure has come under increasing scrutiny. The authors provide a brief review of the tenure literature, discuss some recent tenure controversies, and present basic data on the percentage of faculty subject to the tenure system. The issue of tenure is discussed in terms of how the authority necessary to run a college or university is delegated. The authors believe that this perspective sheds light on some underlying reasons …
Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers
This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus contingent faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student’s first term at Northwestern and employ an identification strategy in which we control for both student-level fixed effects and next-class-taken fixed effects to measure the degre…
Staffing the Higher Education Classroom
We discuss some centrally important decisions faced by colleges and universities regarding how to staff their undergraduate classrooms. We describe the multitasking problem faced by research-intensive institutions and explore the degree to which there may be a trade-off between research and teaching excellence using matched student-faculty-level data from Northwestern University. We present two alternative measures of teaching effectiveness—one c…
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