Richard A. Easterlin

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Volume Title: The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective
Volume Author/Editor: Richard A. Easterlin
Volume Publisher: UMI
Volume ISBN: 0-87014-393-X
Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/east62-1
Publication Date: 1962
Chapter Title: REFERENCES
Chapter Author: Richard A. Easterlin
Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c2024
Chapter pages in book: (p. 33 - 36)AMERICAN BABY BOOM 33
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APPENDIX A: BASIC DATA
This appendix presents the basic tables underlying Figures 1-8. Detailed
notes explaining the underlying sources and methods and precise time refer-
ence of the observations start On p.46.
TABLE A-i—RATE CHANGE, TOTAL WHITE POPULATION, 1870—75/1955—59
Period
Rate of Change in
Specified Quinquennium
(per cent)
Period
Rate of Change in
Specified Quinquennium
(per cent)
1870—75
1875—80
1880—85
1885—90
1890—95
1895—1900
1900—05
1905—10
1910—15
13.0
9.9
13.5
10.4
10.2
8.2
9.7
10.6
9.2
1915—20
1920—25
1925—30
1930—35
1935—40
1940—45
1945—50
1950—55
1955_59a
5.6
8.6
6.3
3.5
3.6
5.1
7.1
7.9
8.1
a Adjustedto rate of change per quinquennium.
Sources:Through1955 [27, p. 37, Table 1, cols. (1) and (3)]. The 1959 estimate was obtained
by extrapolating the 1955 figure shown in [27] on the basis of the Bureau of the Census esti-
mates for total white population (including adjustment for underenumeration of children
aged 0—4) for July 1, 1955 and 1959 t53, No. 146 (Nov. 12, 1956), p. 7, and No. 212 (Jan. 26,
1960), p. 9].

1 a Adjustedto rate of change per quinquennium. Sources:Through1955 [27, p. 37, Table 1, cols. (1) and (3)]. The

A Demographic Aspect of Interstate Variations in American Fertility, 1800-1860,&quot; Mu bank Mem. Fund Quart.,

Agriculture and Recent Economic Conditions. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Annual Estimates of Unemployment in the United States, 1900-1954,&quot;

Birth Rates and the Interwar Business Cycles,&quot;

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, Census of Population:

by N. Carpenter, Census Monogr.

Capital in Agriculture: Its Formation and Financing since

Capitalin the American Economy: Its Formation and Financing.

Census Monogr.

CurrentPopulation Reports: Consumer Income,

CurrentPopulation Reports: Population Characteristics,

CurrentPopulation Reports: Population Estimates,

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS, The Determinants and Consequences of Population Trends,

Economic Backwardness and Economic Growth.

Economic Progress and Declining Population Growth,&quot;

Estimates of the Future Population of the United States 1940-2000, prepared by

Estimates oJ Annual Births and Birth Rates for the White Population of the United States from 1855 to 1934. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,

Family Planning, Sterility, and Population Growth.

Farm Population Estimates for 1950-1959,

Farm Population: Effect of Definition Changes

Farm Population: Migration to and from Farms, 1920-54, AMS-lO.

Forecastsof the Population of the United States 1945-1975, by

GrowingUp in an Affluent Society,&quot; in Tue Nation's Children, Vol. I, The Family and Social Change, edited by Eli Ginzberg.

HistoricalStatistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957.

Housing of Nonfarm Families,&quot;

Immigration and Degradation,&quot; Forum,

Immigration and the Foreign Born,

Implications of Prospective United States Population Growth in the 1960's,&quot; Mu bank Fund Quart.,

Influences in European Overseas Emigration before World War I,&quot;

LongSwings in the Growth of Population and in Related Economic Variables,&quot;

LongSwings in the Growth of the American Labor Force.&quot;

Migration and Economic Growth.

NATIONAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE, Population Statistics:1. National Data.

Population and Economic Growth,&quot;

Population Trends in the United States.

Production in the United States,

Production Trends in the United States since 1870.

Productivity Trends in the United States.

Quantitative Aspects of the Economic Growth of Nations. I. Levels and Variability of Rates of Growth,&quot;

Restrictionof Immigration,&quot; Atlantic Monthly,

Rural and Urban Marriage in Relation to the Sex Ratio,&quot; Rural Soc.,

Secular Swings in Production and Trade, 1870-1913,&quot;

Significance of Kuznets Cycles,&quot;

Social Aspects of the Business Cycle.

Socialand Economic Aspects of Swedish Population Movements,

Some Economic Consequences of a Declining Population,&quot; Eugenics Rev.,

StatisticalAbstract of the United States,

The American Labor Force: Its Growth and Changing Composition.

The Birth Statistics of Massachusetts during the Nineteenth Century,&quot; Population Stud.,

The Business Cycle.

The Changing Population of the United States.

The Fecundity of Native and Foreign-Born Women in New England,

TheIllusion of Wage Rigidity: Long and Short Cycles in Wages and Labor Costs,&quot;

The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective

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