N Krishnan Namboodiri
Biographic Data
| ID | 20438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Krishnan Namboodiri |
| GIVEN NAMES | N Krishnan |
| FAMILY NAME | Namboodiri |
| SIGNATURE | NAMBOODIRI N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Matrix Algebra: An Introduction
Matrix algebra is a vital tool for mathematics in the social sciences, and yet many social scientists have only a rudimentary grasp of it. This volume serves as a complete introduction to matrix algebra, requiring no background knowledge beyond basic school algebra. Namboodiri's presentation is smooth and readable: it begins with the basic definitions and goes on to explain elementary manipulations and the concept of linear dependence, eigenvalue…
On factors affecting fertility at different stages in the reproduction history: An exercise in cohort analysis
Age-parity-specific birth probabilities and central birth rates cumulated over successive five-year age groups for U.S. birth cohorts (whites only) are analyzed using age, period, and cohort as possible independent variables. The main effects of age and period jointly account for virtually all of the variance of age-parity-specific birth probabilities; period accounts for a greater proportion of the variance at higher parities, while the opposite…
Survey Sampling and Measurement
Toward Taming Statistics the Monster
On Sociology in India: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Journal Article On Sociology in India: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Get access N. Krishnan Namboodiri N. Krishnan Namboodiri University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 59, Issue 1, September 1980, Pages 285–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/59.1.285 Published: 01 September 1980
Increment-decrement tables for human reproduction
This paper illustrates the application of increment—decrement life table methods to the study of family building patterns among women. Here age at the oocurrence of a specified birth is considered the principal duration variable. Data from a sample of currently married women from the 1965 US National Fertility Study were used to illustrate the method.
"Comments on "Fertility as Consumption: Theories from the Behavioral Sciences
Journal Article Comments on “Fertility as Consumption: Theories from the Behavioral Sciences” Get access Clyde V. Kiser, Clyde V. Kiser Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Harvey Leibenstein, Harvey Leibenstein Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar N. Krishnan Namboodiri, N. Krishnan Namboodiri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Goo…
On the Design Matrix Strategy in the Analysis of Categorical Data
Economics of the Family: Marriage, Children, and Human Capital
Reply to Rosenzweig and seiver
(1) I am glad to know that more attention is now being paid to viewing family growth as a sequential decisionmaking process ra-ther than as a oneshot decision problem. I do not think, however, that we have accumulated enough empirical results to make it worthwhile now to attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff. (2) It is a good idea to question whether the discriminant function approach is appropriate, whether the OLS or the GLS procedure su…
Prologue
Journal Article Prologue Get access Social Forces, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1975, Pages 2–6, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/54.1.2 Published: 01 September 1975
Which Couples at Given Parities Expect to have Additional Births? An Exercise in Discriminant Analysis
Do couples at given parities who expect to have additional births differ on selected characteristics from their counterparts who do not expect to have any more children? This question is examined herein focusing attention on the wife’s age, age at marriage, religion, and education and the husband’s education and income. The method used is the discriminant-function analysis. The data are from the 1965 U. S. National Fertility Study. The combined d…
The Methods and Materials of Demography
Demographic Analysis: Methods, Results, Applications.Roland Pressat , Judah Matras
On the ratio-correlation and related methods of subnational population estimation
The ratio-correlation method is one of several methods currently being used in the United States for making postcensal estimates of subnational units such as states and counties. It seems to have been commonly presumed by those writing on the subject that the working of the ratiocorrelation method can be understood simply on the basis of the multiple regression theory. That this common notion may sometimes be untenable is demonstrated in this pap…
Experimental designs in which each subject is used repeatedly
Some observations on the economic framework for fertility analysis
The economic framework for fertility analysis, first expounded in detail by Gary S. Becker(1), has attracted considerable attention among demographers. While some writers have enthusiastically endorsed the model, others have rejected it outright(3). A few attempts have also recently been made by some writers to modify or refine some of the concepts employed, and/or to change the modes of treatment of some of the factors in the original model. Unf…
The integrative potential of a fertility model: An analytical test
In an earlier paper a working model of marital fertility was presented.(1) That model grew out of a close study of Becker's economic model for fertility analysis.(2) Becker's model was modified in several respects in order to meet a number of major objections levelled against it by Judith Blake, Deborah Freedman, and others.(3) The purpose of the present paper is to examine how far the model presented earlier can serve as a 'binder' for the inter…
Demographic Analysis
A method for comparative analysis of fertility dynamics represented by sequences of fertility schedules
A method to compare fertility sequences, each of which represents a cyclical fluctuation around an underlying trend, is presented. Each fertility sequence is viewed as composed of a time trend in childspacing pattern and a corresponding trend in terminal fertility rate. The procedure involved in comparing each component of one fertility sequence with the corresponding component of another is described and illustrated. Using hypothetical data it i…
On the relation between economic status and family size preferences when status differentials in contraceptive instrumentalities are eliminated
In this paper an attempt is made to formalize the essential elements of a theory of reproductive motivation outlined by Judith Blake in a recent article. On the basis of the results of that exercise, it is argued that the theory, as it stands now, is not specific enough to 'predict' whether the affluent would choose to have fewer children than the poor, if contraceptive instrumentalities were to be equalized among the economic strata. It is also …
General Theory of Population
A Statistical Exposition of the 'Before-After' and 'After-Only' Designs and Their Combinations
A unified treatment of the "before-after" and "after-only" designs and their combinations is given. These designs are viewed as instances of fractional or full replicates of 2 factorials. If these designs are viewed in this way the experimenter has a greater chance of avoiding it falls to which he might otherwise succumb in the interpretation of the results. The paper tries to brig out clearly the type of information each desing is capable of pro…
On the dependence of age structure on a sequence of mortality and fertility schedules: An exposition of a cyclical model of population change
In this paper a method to investigate the dependence of age structure and growth rate on a given sequence of fertility and mortality schedules under the conditions of unchanging mortality and absence of migration is discussed. The method consists in projecting an arbitrary population classified by age to the ends of successive periods assuming that a given age pattern of mortality will remain without change and that a given sequence of fertility …
Another Look At Structural—Functional Analysis: An Exercise in Axiomatic Theory Construction
Some observations on the economic framework for fertility analysis
The economic framework for fertility analysis, first expounded in detail by Gary S. Becker(1), has attracted considerable attention among demographers. While some writers have enthusiastically endorsed the model, others have rejected it outright(3). A few attempts have also recently been made by some writers to modify or refine some of the concepts employed, and/or to change the modes of treatment of some of the factors in the original model. Unf…
Which Couples at Given Parities Expect to have Additional Births? An Exercise in Discriminant Analysis
Do couples at given parities who expect to have additional births differ on selected characteristics from their counterparts who do not expect to have any more children? This question is examined herein focusing attention on the wife’s age, age at marriage, religion, and education and the husband’s education and income. The method used is the discriminant-function analysis. The data are from the 1965 U. S. National Fertility Study. The combined d…
On the ratio-correlation and related methods of subnational population estimation
The ratio-correlation method is one of several methods currently being used in the United States for making postcensal estimates of subnational units such as states and counties. It seems to have been commonly presumed by those writing on the subject that the working of the ratiocorrelation method can be understood simply on the basis of the multiple regression theory. That this common notion may sometimes be untenable is demonstrated in this pap…
The integrative potential of a fertility model: An analytical test
In an earlier paper a working model of marital fertility was presented.(1) That model grew out of a close study of Becker's economic model for fertility analysis.(2) Becker's model was modified in several respects in order to meet a number of major objections levelled against it by Judith Blake, Deborah Freedman, and others.(3) The purpose of the present paper is to examine how far the model presented earlier can serve as a 'binder' for the inter…
On the dependence of age structure on a sequence of mortality and fertility schedules: An exposition of a cyclical model of population change
In this paper a method to investigate the dependence of age structure and growth rate on a given sequence of fertility and mortality schedules under the conditions of unchanging mortality and absence of migration is discussed. The method consists in projecting an arbitrary population classified by age to the ends of successive periods assuming that a given age pattern of mortality will remain without change and that a given sequence of fertility …
On factors affecting fertility at different stages in the reproduction history: An exercise in cohort analysis
Age-parity-specific birth probabilities and central birth rates cumulated over successive five-year age groups for U.S. birth cohorts (whites only) are analyzed using age, period, and cohort as possible independent variables. The main effects of age and period jointly account for virtually all of the variance of age-parity-specific birth probabilities; period accounts for a greater proportion of the variance at higher parities, while the opposite…
On the Design Matrix Strategy in the Analysis of Categorical Data
Experimental designs in which each subject is used repeatedly
On Sociology in India: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Journal Article On Sociology in India: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Get access N. Krishnan Namboodiri N. Krishnan Namboodiri University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 59, Issue 1, September 1980, Pages 285–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/59.1.285 Published: 01 September 1980
"Comments on "Fertility as Consumption: Theories from the Behavioral Sciences
Journal Article Comments on “Fertility as Consumption: Theories from the Behavioral Sciences” Get access Clyde V. Kiser, Clyde V. Kiser Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Harvey Leibenstein, Harvey Leibenstein Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar N. Krishnan Namboodiri, N. Krishnan Namboodiri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Goo…
Demographic Analysis
A method for comparative analysis of fertility dynamics represented by sequences of fertility schedules
A method to compare fertility sequences, each of which represents a cyclical fluctuation around an underlying trend, is presented. Each fertility sequence is viewed as composed of a time trend in childspacing pattern and a corresponding trend in terminal fertility rate. The procedure involved in comparing each component of one fertility sequence with the corresponding component of another is described and illustrated. Using hypothetical data it i…
On the relation between economic status and family size preferences when status differentials in contraceptive instrumentalities are eliminated
In this paper an attempt is made to formalize the essential elements of a theory of reproductive motivation outlined by Judith Blake in a recent article. On the basis of the results of that exercise, it is argued that the theory, as it stands now, is not specific enough to 'predict' whether the affluent would choose to have fewer children than the poor, if contraceptive instrumentalities were to be equalized among the economic strata. It is also …
Another Look At Structural—Functional Analysis: An Exercise in Axiomatic Theory Construction
On the dependence of age structure on a sequence of mortality and fertility schedules: An exposition of a cyclical model of population change
In this paper a method to investigate the dependence of age structure and growth rate on a given sequence of fertility and mortality schedules under the conditions of unchanging mortality and absence of migration is discussed. The method consists in projecting an arbitrary population classified by age to the ends of successive periods assuming that a given age pattern of mortality will remain without change and that a given sequence of fertility …
A method for comparative analysis of fertility dynamics represented by sequences of fertility schedules
A method to compare fertility sequences, each of which represents a cyclical fluctuation around an underlying trend, is presented. Each fertility sequence is viewed as composed of a time trend in childspacing pattern and a corresponding trend in terminal fertility rate. The procedure involved in comparing each component of one fertility sequence with the corresponding component of another is described and illustrated. Using hypothetical data it i…
On the relation between economic status and family size preferences when status differentials in contraceptive instrumentalities are eliminated
In this paper an attempt is made to formalize the essential elements of a theory of reproductive motivation outlined by Judith Blake in a recent article. On the basis of the results of that exercise, it is argued that the theory, as it stands now, is not specific enough to 'predict' whether the affluent would choose to have fewer children than the poor, if contraceptive instrumentalities were to be equalized among the economic strata. It is also …
General Theory of Population
A Statistical Exposition of the 'Before-After' and 'After-Only' Designs and Their Combinations
A unified treatment of the "before-after" and "after-only" designs and their combinations is given. These designs are viewed as instances of fractional or full replicates of 2 factorials. If these designs are viewed in this way the experimenter has a greater chance of avoiding it falls to which he might otherwise succumb in the interpretation of the results. The paper tries to brig out clearly the type of information each desing is capable of pro…
Demographic Analysis
On the ratio-correlation and related methods of subnational population estimation
The ratio-correlation method is one of several methods currently being used in the United States for making postcensal estimates of subnational units such as states and counties. It seems to have been commonly presumed by those writing on the subject that the working of the ratiocorrelation method can be understood simply on the basis of the multiple regression theory. That this common notion may sometimes be untenable is demonstrated in this pap…
Experimental designs in which each subject is used repeatedly
Some observations on the economic framework for fertility analysis
The economic framework for fertility analysis, first expounded in detail by Gary S. Becker(1), has attracted considerable attention among demographers. While some writers have enthusiastically endorsed the model, others have rejected it outright(3). A few attempts have also recently been made by some writers to modify or refine some of the concepts employed, and/or to change the modes of treatment of some of the factors in the original model. Unf…
The integrative potential of a fertility model: An analytical test
In an earlier paper a working model of marital fertility was presented.(1) That model grew out of a close study of Becker's economic model for fertility analysis.(2) Becker's model was modified in several respects in order to meet a number of major objections levelled against it by Judith Blake, Deborah Freedman, and others.(3) The purpose of the present paper is to examine how far the model presented earlier can serve as a 'binder' for the inter…
The Methods and Materials of Demography
Demographic Analysis: Methods, Results, Applications.Roland Pressat , Judah Matras
Which Couples at Given Parities Expect to have Additional Births? An Exercise in Discriminant Analysis
Do couples at given parities who expect to have additional births differ on selected characteristics from their counterparts who do not expect to have any more children? This question is examined herein focusing attention on the wife’s age, age at marriage, religion, and education and the husband’s education and income. The method used is the discriminant-function analysis. The data are from the 1965 U. S. National Fertility Study. The combined d…
Economics of the Family: Marriage, Children, and Human Capital
Reply to Rosenzweig and seiver
(1) I am glad to know that more attention is now being paid to viewing family growth as a sequential decisionmaking process ra-ther than as a oneshot decision problem. I do not think, however, that we have accumulated enough empirical results to make it worthwhile now to attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff. (2) It is a good idea to question whether the discriminant function approach is appropriate, whether the OLS or the GLS procedure su…
Prologue
Journal Article Prologue Get access Social Forces, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1975, Pages 2–6, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/54.1.2 Published: 01 September 1975
Increment-decrement tables for human reproduction
This paper illustrates the application of increment—decrement life table methods to the study of family building patterns among women. Here age at the oocurrence of a specified birth is considered the principal duration variable. Data from a sample of currently married women from the 1965 US National Fertility Study were used to illustrate the method.
"Comments on "Fertility as Consumption: Theories from the Behavioral Sciences
Journal Article Comments on “Fertility as Consumption: Theories from the Behavioral Sciences” Get access Clyde V. Kiser, Clyde V. Kiser Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Harvey Leibenstein, Harvey Leibenstein Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar N. Krishnan Namboodiri, N. Krishnan Namboodiri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Goo…
On the Design Matrix Strategy in the Analysis of Categorical Data
Survey Sampling and Measurement
Toward Taming Statistics the Monster
On Sociology in India: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Journal Article On Sociology in India: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Get access N. Krishnan Namboodiri N. Krishnan Namboodiri University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 59, Issue 1, September 1980, Pages 285–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/59.1.285 Published: 01 September 1980
On factors affecting fertility at different stages in the reproduction history: An exercise in cohort analysis
Age-parity-specific birth probabilities and central birth rates cumulated over successive five-year age groups for U.S. birth cohorts (whites only) are analyzed using age, period, and cohort as possible independent variables. The main effects of age and period jointly account for virtually all of the variance of age-parity-specific birth probabilities; period accounts for a greater proportion of the variance at higher parities, while the opposite…
Matrix Algebra: An Introduction
Matrix algebra is a vital tool for mathematics in the social sciences, and yet many social scientists have only a rudimentary grasp of it. This volume serves as a complete introduction to matrix algebra, requiring no background knowledge beyond basic school algebra. Namboodiri's presentation is smooth and readable: it begins with the basic definitions and goes on to explain elementary manipulations and the concept of linear dependence, eigenvalue…
Sociology (17 works) · Demography (12 works) · Population (11 works) · Mathematics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Fertility (8 works) · Statistics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 works)