Education

B.A., Washington State University, Economics, 1976

Fields

Selected Work Experience

1. Visiting Scholar

University of Washington, Institute for Environmental Studies, 1994 - 1995
2. Economist

World Bank, 1985 - 1989

Country Experience

Publications and Working Papers

William Jaeger, "Pollution, Smoke and Mirrors," in Proceedings of the 1998 National Tax Association
 Association meetings, forthcoming 1999.
_________, "On the Double Dividend of Environmental Taxation," Presented at the World Congress of
 Environmental and Resource Economists, Venice, Italy, June 1998.
_________, "Growth and Environmental Resources: A Theoretical Basis for the U-shaped Environmental Path," working paper 1998.
_________, "Optimal Environmental Taxation," Economics Department Research Paper No. 173,
 Williams College, revised June 1998.
_________, "Saving Salmon with Fishwheels: a bioeconomic analysis," Natural Resources Journal,
 Vol. 37, No. 4, fall 1997.
_________, "The Welfare Cost of a Global Carbon Tax When Tax Revenues Are Recycled,"
 Resource and Energy Economics, Vol. 17 (1), March 1995.
_________, "Is Sustainability Optimal?: Examining the Differences Between Economists and
 Environmentalists," Ecological Economics, Vol. 15, October 1995.
_________, (with S. Patel and T. Pinckney) "Smallholder wood production and population pressure in
 East Africa: evidence of an environmental Kuznets curve?" Land Economics, November 1995.
_________, "The Causes of Africa's Food Crisis," World Development, Vol. 20, No. 11, November
 1992.
_________, "The Effects of Economic Policies on African Agriculture: From Past Harm to Future  Hope," World Bank Discussion Paper #147, Washington, DC: The World Bank, March 1992.
Diane Macunovich, "Review of From Parent to Child: Intrahousehold Allocations and Intergenerational Relations in the United States," by Jere Behrman, Robert Pollack and Paul Taubman, forthcoming in Economics of Education Review.
__________, "A Review of Recent Developments in the Economics of Fertility," in Paul Menchik, ed., Household and Family Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Norwell, MA, forthcoming.
__________, "Relative Income and Price of Time: Exploring Their Effects on U.S. Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation, 1963-1993," in Fertility in the United States: New Patterns, New Theories, Population and Development Review, supplement to Volume 22:1-35, forthcoming, October 1996.
__________, "Social Security and Retirees: Two Views of the Projections -- An Economist's Perspective," pp.43-67 in Peter A. Diamond, David Lindeman and Howard Young, eds., Social Security: What Role for the Future? National Academy of Social Insurance: Washington, DC, (1996).
__________, "The Butz-Ward Fertility Model in the Light of More Recent Data," Journal of Human Resources, Spring 1995, (30)2:229-255.
__________, (with R.A. Easterlin, E.M Crimmins and C. Macdonald) "Echoes of the Baby Boom and Bust: Recent and Prospective Changes in Intergenerational Living Arrangements of Elderly Widows in the United States" Demography, February 1995, 32(1):17-28.
__________, (with R.A. Easterlin and C.Schaeffer) "Will the Baby Boomers Be Less Well Off Than Their Parents? Income, Wealth and Family Circumstances Over the Life Cycle," Population and Development Review, September 1993, 19(3): 497-522.
__________, (with Richard Easterlin and Eileen Crimmins) "Economic Status of the Young and Old in the Working Age Population, 1964 and 1987," in Vern L. Bengston and W. Andrew Achenbaum, eds., The Changing Contract Across Generations, New York: Aldine DeGruyter, 1993.
__________, (with Richard A. Easterlin) "How Parents Have Coped: The Effect of Life Cycle Demographic Decisions on the Economic Status of Pre-School Age Children, 1964-1987," Population and Development Review, June 1990, 16(2):299-323.
__________, (with Richard A. Easterlin and Christine Macdonald) "How Have the American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economics Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987," Journal of Population Economics, 3(4):277-290, 1990.
 
 
 
 

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