Diane J. Macunovich

Associate Professor of Economics

Education

Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1989

B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966

Fields

Population Economics, Labor Economics, Gender Economics

Selected Work Experience

1. Assistant Lecturer and Research Associate
   University of Southern California & RAND Corporation, 1983-1989
2. President and Economic/Demographic Analyst
   Plan Technics Consultants--Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1977-1985

Publications and Working Papers

• 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.
• __________, "Echoes of the Baby Boom and Bust: Recent and Prospective Changes in Intergenerational Living Arrangements of Elderly Widows in the United States," (with R.A. Easterlin, E.M Crimmins and C. Macdonald) Demography, February 1995, 32(1):17-28.
• __________, "Will the Baby Boomers Be Less Well Off Than Their Parents? Income,Wealth and Family Circumstances Over the Life Cycle," (with R.A. Easterlin and C.Schaeffer) Population and Development Review, September 1993, 19(3): 497-522.
• ___________, "Economic Status of the Young and Old in the Working Age Population, 1964 and 1987," (with Richard Easterlin and Eileen Crimmins) in Vern L. Bengston and W. Andrew Achenbaum, eds., The Changing Contract Across Generations, New York: Aldine DeGruyter, 1993.
• __________, "How Parents Have Coped: The Effect of Life Cycle Demographic Decisions on the Economic Status of Pre-School Age Children, 1964-1987," (with Richard A. Easterlin) Population and Development Review, June 1990, 16(2):299-323.
• __________, "How Have the American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economics Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987," (with Richard A. Easterlin and Christine Macdonald) Journal of Population Economics, 3(4):277-290, 1990.

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