Ronald G Ridker
Biographic Data
| ID | 279258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald G Ridker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald G |
| FAMILY NAME | Ridker |
| SIGNATURE | RIDKER R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brookings Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Population and Development
The No-Birth Bonus Scheme
Reviews the history and assesses the results of a monetary incentive scheme for family planning operating in 3 tea estates in South India since 1971. The incentive involves deposits into a savings account payable upon retirement for those who have small families. Since 1971 fertility appears to have fallen somewhat faster on the estates where the scheme was offered than on other comparable estates but not as rapidly as might have been expected ha…
Population and Development. The Search for Selective Interventions
Journal Article Population and Development. The Search for Selective Interventions Get access Population and Development. The Search for Selective Interventions. Edited by RONALD G. RIDKER. (London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future. Pp. xviii + 467. £16.85.) R. Scott Moreland R. Scott Moreland University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume …
Population, Politics, and the Future of Southern Asia. W. Howard Wriggins , James F. Guyot
Incentives for Family Welfare and Fertility Reduction
Providing financial incentives to parents agreeing to limit family size is a means of attracting the large group of persons who want many children towards family planning. The scheme would offer each married health checkup but only if she were not pregnant. Apart from a small cash payment the bulk of the incentive would be deferred until retirment. The size of the pension would vary inversely with the number of surviving children. The benefits co…
Savings Accounts for Family Planning, An Illustration from the Tea Estates of India
A proposal outlining an incentive program for lowering birth rates using an employer savings accounts plan was tested in the tea estates of South India which provide an excellent test environment for this plan because they are controlled and stable areas with good record keeping medical care and attitude toward birth control. The plan involves the establishment of a savings account by the employer for each female employee in which he deposits a s…
Synopsis of a Proposal for a Family Planning Bond
Among the efforts being proposed to lower birth rates are incentive programs involving payment for the initiation or the effective practice of contraception. The following paper describes such an approach. It is a condensed version of a longer paper entitled A Proposal for a Family Planning Bond prepared by Ronald G. Ridker Economic Advisor U. S. Agency for International Development New Delhi India. To date few countries have made significant use…
Economic Costs of Air Pollution
Desired family size and the efficacy of current family planning programmes
This paper takes a look at the belief that the number of couples currently desiring to limit family size is sufficiently large (and the intensity of their desire sufficiently strong) that the provision of supplies, services and education - the standard family planning package - will be adequate to bring the birth rate down to acceptable levels within a reasonable time period. Evidence comes from other countries, from attitude surveys and behaviou…
The economic determinants of discontent
The Determinants of Residential Property Values with Special Reference to Air Pollution
Ronald G. Ridker, John A. Henning, The Determinants of Residential Property Values with Special Reference to Air Pollution, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 49, No. 2 (May, 1967), pp. 246-257
An Evaluation of the Forecasting Ability of the Norwegian National Budgeting System
SINCE the end of World XVar II the Norwegian government has published forecasts of next year's values of several macroeconomic variables. These projections, mixed sometimes with plans and targets, are published in January or February of the year to which they refer in an official document called the National Budget. It is the purpose of this paper to evaluate the administrative system that sets up the National Budgets by comparing its forecasting…
On the Economics of Post-World War III
Discontent and Economic Growth
Population and Development. The Search for Selective Interventions
Journal Article Population and Development. The Search for Selective Interventions Get access Population and Development. The Search for Selective Interventions. Edited by RONALD G. RIDKER. (London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future. Pp. xviii + 467. £16.85.) R. Scott Moreland R. Scott Moreland University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume …
Discontent and Economic Growth
Synopsis of a Proposal for a Family Planning Bond
Among the efforts being proposed to lower birth rates are incentive programs involving payment for the initiation or the effective practice of contraception. The following paper describes such an approach. It is a condensed version of a longer paper entitled A Proposal for a Family Planning Bond prepared by Ronald G. Ridker Economic Advisor U. S. Agency for International Development New Delhi India. To date few countries have made significant use…
Savings Accounts for Family Planning, An Illustration from the Tea Estates of India
A proposal outlining an incentive program for lowering birth rates using an employer savings accounts plan was tested in the tea estates of South India which provide an excellent test environment for this plan because they are controlled and stable areas with good record keeping medical care and attitude toward birth control. The plan involves the establishment of a savings account by the employer for each female employee in which he deposits a s…
The No-Birth Bonus Scheme
Reviews the history and assesses the results of a monetary incentive scheme for family planning operating in 3 tea estates in South India since 1971. The incentive involves deposits into a savings account payable upon retirement for those who have small families. Since 1971 fertility appears to have fallen somewhat faster on the estates where the scheme was offered than on other comparable estates but not as rapidly as might have been expected ha…
Incentives for Family Welfare and Fertility Reduction
Providing financial incentives to parents agreeing to limit family size is a means of attracting the large group of persons who want many children towards family planning. The scheme would offer each married health checkup but only if she were not pregnant. Apart from a small cash payment the bulk of the incentive would be deferred until retirment. The size of the pension would vary inversely with the number of surviving children. The benefits co…
Desired family size and the efficacy of current family planning programmes
This paper takes a look at the belief that the number of couples currently desiring to limit family size is sufficiently large (and the intensity of their desire sufficiently strong) that the provision of supplies, services and education - the standard family planning package - will be adequate to bring the birth rate down to acceptable levels within a reasonable time period. Evidence comes from other countries, from attitude surveys and behaviou…
Discontent and Economic Growth
An Evaluation of the Forecasting Ability of the Norwegian National Budgeting System
SINCE the end of World XVar II the Norwegian government has published forecasts of next year's values of several macroeconomic variables. These projections, mixed sometimes with plans and targets, are published in January or February of the year to which they refer in an official document called the National Budget. It is the purpose of this paper to evaluate the administrative system that sets up the National Budgets by comparing its forecasting…
On the Economics of Post-World War III
The Determinants of Residential Property Values with Special Reference to Air Pollution
Ronald G. Ridker, John A. Henning, The Determinants of Residential Property Values with Special Reference to Air Pollution, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 49, No. 2 (May, 1967), pp. 246-257
The economic determinants of discontent
Synopsis of a Proposal for a Family Planning Bond
Among the efforts being proposed to lower birth rates are incentive programs involving payment for the initiation or the effective practice of contraception. The following paper describes such an approach. It is a condensed version of a longer paper entitled A Proposal for a Family Planning Bond prepared by Ronald G. Ridker Economic Advisor U. S. Agency for International Development New Delhi India. To date few countries have made significant use…
Economic Costs of Air Pollution
Desired family size and the efficacy of current family planning programmes
This paper takes a look at the belief that the number of couples currently desiring to limit family size is sufficiently large (and the intensity of their desire sufficiently strong) that the provision of supplies, services and education - the standard family planning package - will be adequate to bring the birth rate down to acceptable levels within a reasonable time period. Evidence comes from other countries, from attitude surveys and behaviou…
Savings Accounts for Family Planning, An Illustration from the Tea Estates of India
A proposal outlining an incentive program for lowering birth rates using an employer savings accounts plan was tested in the tea estates of South India which provide an excellent test environment for this plan because they are controlled and stable areas with good record keeping medical care and attitude toward birth control. The plan involves the establishment of a savings account by the employer for each female employee in which he deposits a s…
Incentives for Family Welfare and Fertility Reduction
Providing financial incentives to parents agreeing to limit family size is a means of attracting the large group of persons who want many children towards family planning. The scheme would offer each married health checkup but only if she were not pregnant. Apart from a small cash payment the bulk of the incentive would be deferred until retirment. The size of the pension would vary inversely with the number of surviving children. The benefits co…
Population, Politics, and the Future of Southern Asia. W. Howard Wriggins , James F. Guyot
Population and Development. The Search for Selective Interventions
Journal Article Population and Development. The Search for Selective Interventions Get access Population and Development. The Search for Selective Interventions. Edited by RONALD G. RIDKER. (London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future. Pp. xviii + 467. £16.85.) R. Scott Moreland R. Scott Moreland University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume …
The No-Birth Bonus Scheme
Reviews the history and assesses the results of a monetary incentive scheme for family planning operating in 3 tea estates in South India since 1971. The incentive involves deposits into a savings account payable upon retirement for those who have small families. Since 1971 fertility appears to have fallen somewhat faster on the estates where the scheme was offered than on other comparable estates but not as rapidly as might have been expected ha…
Population and Development
Economics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Family planning (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Research methodology (4 works)