David Shapiro
Professor of Economics
Joined the faculty in 1980
Ph.D., 1972, Princeton University
Labor Economics, Economic Demography, Economic
Development, Human Resources, Economics of Education
416 Kern Building
phone: (814)863-1533
e-mail: dshapiro@psu.edu
Pictures from IHS reunion, Oct. 2007
Pictures from Kinshasa 2004-2005 (under construction, comments welcome)
Econ 463 lectures (Spring 1997)
Economics Honors Program Home page
Selected Publications:
● Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility: Kinshasa in Transition (with B. Oleko Tambashe) University of Chicago Press, 2003. [Table of Contents] .
● "Gender, Poverty, Family Structure, and Investments in Children's Education in Kinshasa, Congo" (with B. Oleko Tambashe), Economics of Education Review, August 2001.
● "Education, Employment and Fertility in Kinshasa and Prospects for Changes in Reproductive Behavior," (with B. Tambashe), Population Research and Policy Review, June 1997.
● "Fertility Decline in Kinshasa," Population Studies, March 1996.
● "Racial Differences in Access to High-Paying Jobs and the Wage Gap Between Black and White Women" (with D. Anderson) Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1996.
● "Long-Term Employment and Earnings of Women in Relation to Employment Behavior Surrounding the First Birth" (with F. Mott), Journal of Human Resources, Spring 1994.
● The Agricultural Development of Zaire, (with E. Tollens), 1992.
● "Farm Size, Household Size and Composition, and Women's Contribution to Agricultural Production: Evidence from Zaire," Journal of Development Studies, October 1990.
● "Women's Work Plans: Contrasting Expectations and Actual Work Experience," (with L. Shaw), Monthly Labor Review, November 1987.
● "Age Discrimination in Wages and Displaced Older Men," (with S. Sandell) Southern Economic Journal, July 1985.
● "Wage Differentials Among Black, Hispanic, and White Young Men," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1984.
● "Work Expectations, Human Capital Accumulation and the Wages of Young Women," (with S. Sandell) Journal of Human Resources, Summer 1980.
● "Labor Supply Behavior of Prospective and New Mothers," (with F. Mott) Demography, May 1979.
● "Relative Wage Effects of Unions in the Public Sector," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1978.
● "The Theory of Human Capital and the Earnings of Women: A Reexamination of the Evidence," (with S. Sandell) Journal of Human Resources, Winter 1978.
Research in Progress:
● "Fertility
Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Falling and Stalling,"
(with Tesfayi Gebreselassie).