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Birth and Fortune. The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare
Abstract
In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlin shows how the size of a generation-the number of persons born in a particular year-directly and indirectly affects the personal welfare of its members, the make-up and breakdown of the family, and the general well being of the economy. [Easterlin] has made clear, I think unambiguously, that the baby-boom generation is economically underprivileged merely because of its size. And in showing this, he demonstrates that population size can be as restrictive as a factor as sex, race, or class on equality of opportunity in the U.S.-Jeffrey Madrick, Business Week
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Metadata
- Authors
- L., H., & Easterlin, R. A.
- Venue
- Population (French Edition)
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1981-05
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 643
- ISSN
- 0032-4663 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1988441589
- Cited by
- 622
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 44.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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