Charles M Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 202342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles M Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles M |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Moving mountains
Using a novel geospatial panel combined with data from the 2015 American Community Survey (ACS), we investigate the effect of topography—altitude and terrain unevenness—on income segregation at the neighborhood level. Specifically, we perform large‐scale counterfactual simulations by estimating household preferences for topography, altering the topographical profile of each city, and observing the resulting neighborhood sorting outcome. We find t…
Daughters-In-Law and Domestic Violence
Patrilocal marriage – living in the husband’s natal household – affects Central Asian women and their choices in family planning, labor force participation, and human capital investment. While anthropological evidence suggests that elder household members play a key role in the lives of junior women, empirical studies are scarce. This study uses Tajikistan’s 2012 Demographic and Health Survey (TJDHS) to explore the link between domestic violence …
How marriages based on bride capture differ
A significant proportion of women in the Kyrgyz Republic marry via ala kachuu, generally translated as bride capture or kidnapping. Many regard this practice as harmless elopement or a tradition; others perceive it as a form of forced marriage
Economic Crisis, Income Gaps, Uncertainty, and Inter-regional Migration Responses
There is ample empirical evidence that internal migration occurs in response to wage differentials; recently, evidence has emerged that international migration is deterred by rising destination uncertainty. However, to our knowledge, there has been no analysis of how internal migration responds to differing incentives during good times and bad. This paper provides insight into this issue using detailed regional economic and migration data for Kaz…
Forced Marriage and Birth Outcomes
We study the impact of marriages resulting from bride kidnapping on infant birth weight. Bride kidnapping—a form of forced marriage—implies that women are abducted by men and have little choice other than to marry their kidnappers. Given this lack of choice over the spouse, we expect adverse consequences for women in such marriages. Remarkable survey data from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan enable exploration of differential birth outcome…
The (literally) steepest slope
This paper presents an analysis of elevation gradient and temporal future-station effects in urban real estate markets. Using a novel dataset from the Hong Kong publicly constructed housing sector, we find enormous housing price effects caused by levels of terrain incline between apartments and subway stations. Ceteris paribus, two similar apartments with closest metro stations of the same walking distance may sell at a difference of up to 20% be…
Uncertainty, Insecurity, and Emigration from Kazakhstan to Russia
Disability incidence and official health status transitions in Russia
Global Infant Mortality
Age-adjusted disability rates and regional effects in Russia
We provide three measures of age-standardized disability rates for each Russian region and show that most, though not all, of the regional patterns in disability prevalence disappear with standardization. Disability prevalence remains unusually high fo
W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect
This paper reviews several themes from the writings of W. Arthur Lewis, both the first black Nobel Laureate in Economics and the first from a developing country, and examines them from the perspective of two to five decades of hindsight. The paper emphasizes three main interrelated aspects; economic growth, economic dualism, and “the evolution of the economic order”—the forces that drive the prices of goods and relative incomes across countries. …
Mortality recovery and stabilization in Kazakhstan, 1995–2001
Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa (review)
Associational Life in African Cities
This book is about the multitude of associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak and abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases existing organisations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a s…
Maternal care vs. economic wealth and the health of newborns
Demographic change in the former Soviet Union during the transition period
Pension burdens and labor force participation in Kazakstan
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
Observational equivalence in the modeling of African labor markets and urbanization
The Migration of Labor
The demo-economic impact of the Aids pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Agricultural prices, policy, and equity in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Determinants of Urban Population Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Demographic change in the former Soviet Union during the transition period
Global Infant Mortality
Studies in Indian Urban Development
Journal Article Studies in Indian Urban Development Get access Studies in Indian Urban Development. By EDWIN S. MILLS and CHARLES M. BECKER with a contribution by S. Verma. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the World Bank, 1986. Pp. viii + 214. à £27.50 hardback.) Nigel Harris Nigel Harris Development Planning Unit, University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume …
The demo-economic impact of the Aids pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Economic Sanctions against South Africa
In this paper, I shall dispute the widely held belief that all effective sanctions would greatly hurt poor South African blacks. Rather, it is likely that bans on exports of high technology to South Africa and imports of South African gold and diamonds would cause labor-intensive sectors to expand, thereby limiting the impact of a general recession on unskilled nonwhites. Still, several types of sanctions, such as those on oil, would have a sever…
Forced Marriage and Birth Outcomes
We study the impact of marriages resulting from bride kidnapping on infant birth weight. Bride kidnapping—a form of forced marriage—implies that women are abducted by men and have little choice other than to marry their kidnappers. Given this lack of choice over the spouse, we expect adverse consequences for women in such marriages. Remarkable survey data from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan enable exploration of differential birth outcome…
Maternal care vs. economic wealth and the health of newborns
Uncertainty, Insecurity, and Emigration from Kazakhstan to Russia
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
Modeling Indian Migration and City Growth, 1960-2000
Daughters-In-Law and Domestic Violence
Patrilocal marriage – living in the husband’s natal household – affects Central Asian women and their choices in family planning, labor force participation, and human capital investment. While anthropological evidence suggests that elder household members play a key role in the lives of junior women, empirical studies are scarce. This study uses Tajikistan’s 2012 Demographic and Health Survey (TJDHS) to explore the link between domestic violence …
How marriages based on bride capture differ
A significant proportion of women in the Kyrgyz Republic marry via ala kachuu, generally translated as bride capture or kidnapping. Many regard this practice as harmless elopement or a tradition; others perceive it as a form of forced marriage
W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect
This paper reviews several themes from the writings of W. Arthur Lewis, both the first black Nobel Laureate in Economics and the first from a developing country, and examines them from the perspective of two to five decades of hindsight. The paper emphasizes three main interrelated aspects; economic growth, economic dualism, and “the evolution of the economic order”—the forces that drive the prices of goods and relative incomes across countries. …
Pension burdens and labor force participation in Kazakstan
The Impact of Sanctions on South Africa and Its Periphery
The debate concerning whether the West should impose sanctions against the Republic of South Africa has been mostly political in nature. Moreover, much of the discussion has concerned the morality of sanctions; less, especially by advocates of sanctions, has dealt with the effectiveness of proposed measures. The economics literature has been particularly sparse, and most detailed analyses are inaccessible other than to professional economists. 1 …
Observational equivalence in the modeling of African labor markets and urbanization
Agricultural prices, policy, and equity in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Determinants of Urban Population Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Modeling Indian Migration and City Growth, 1960-2000
Urban sector income distribution and economic development
Studies in Indian Urban Development
Journal Article Studies in Indian Urban Development Get access Studies in Indian Urban Development. By EDWIN S. MILLS and CHARLES M. BECKER with a contribution by S. Verma. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the World Bank, 1986. Pp. viii + 214. à £27.50 hardback.) Nigel Harris Nigel Harris Development Planning Unit, University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume …
Economic Sanctions against South Africa
In this paper, I shall dispute the widely held belief that all effective sanctions would greatly hurt poor South African blacks. Rather, it is likely that bans on exports of high technology to South Africa and imports of South African gold and diamonds would cause labor-intensive sectors to expand, thereby limiting the impact of a general recession on unskilled nonwhites. Still, several types of sanctions, such as those on oil, would have a sever…
Agricultural prices, policy, and equity in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Determinants of Urban Population Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Impact of Sanctions on South Africa and Its Periphery
The debate concerning whether the West should impose sanctions against the Republic of South Africa has been mostly political in nature. Moreover, much of the discussion has concerned the morality of sanctions; less, especially by advocates of sanctions, has dealt with the effectiveness of proposed measures. The economics literature has been particularly sparse, and most detailed analyses are inaccessible other than to professional economists. 1 …
The demo-economic impact of the Aids pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Observational equivalence in the modeling of African labor markets and urbanization
The Migration of Labor
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
Maternal care vs. economic wealth and the health of newborns
Demographic change in the former Soviet Union during the transition period
Pension burdens and labor force participation in Kazakstan
Associational Life in African Cities
This book is about the multitude of associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak and abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases existing organisations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a s…
Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa (review)
Mortality recovery and stabilization in Kazakhstan, 1995–2001
W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect
This paper reviews several themes from the writings of W. Arthur Lewis, both the first black Nobel Laureate in Economics and the first from a developing country, and examines them from the perspective of two to five decades of hindsight. The paper emphasizes three main interrelated aspects; economic growth, economic dualism, and “the evolution of the economic order”—the forces that drive the prices of goods and relative incomes across countries. …
Global Infant Mortality
Age-adjusted disability rates and regional effects in Russia
We provide three measures of age-standardized disability rates for each Russian region and show that most, though not all, of the regional patterns in disability prevalence disappear with standardization. Disability prevalence remains unusually high fo
Disability incidence and official health status transitions in Russia
Uncertainty, Insecurity, and Emigration from Kazakhstan to Russia
The (literally) steepest slope
This paper presents an analysis of elevation gradient and temporal future-station effects in urban real estate markets. Using a novel dataset from the Hong Kong publicly constructed housing sector, we find enormous housing price effects caused by levels of terrain incline between apartments and subway stations. Ceteris paribus, two similar apartments with closest metro stations of the same walking distance may sell at a difference of up to 20% be…
Economics (27 works) · Geography (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Development economics (14 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Global Health Care Issues (8 works) · Population (8 works)