RICRARD A. EASTERLIN

Department of Economics
University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California 900894
Phone:(213) 740-6993  Fax: (213) 740-8543
 
 

Biographical Sketch


January 2000

329 Patrician Way
Pasadena, California 91105
(626) 449-9193
 

Education:

University of Pennsylvania, 1948-53; A.M., 1949; Ph.D., 1953.

Stevens Institute of Technology, 1943-1945; M.E. with distinction, 1945.

Honors and Fellowships:

Honorary doctorate, Lund University, Sweden, May 1998

Irene B. Taeuher Award, Population Association of America, 1993

Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1988-89

Recipient, Raubenheimer Award for Teaching and Research, Univ. of Southern California, 1988

Board of Directors, National Bureau of Economic Research (Rep. of Econ. History Assn.), 1986-1997 Recipient, Burlington

Northern Faculty Achievement Award, Univ. of Southern California, 1987

Fellow, Econometric Society, 1983

Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar., California Institute of Technology, 1980-81

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1978

Walker-Ames Professor, University of Washington, 1977

Visiting Centennial Professor, Texas A&M University, 1976

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1970-71

University of Michigan Sesquicentennial Award, 1967

Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1965-66

Israel Summer Fellowship, 1959

Social Science Research Council Pre-Doctoral Research Trainlng, 1951-52

Teaching and Administrative Positions:

University of Southern California

University Professor, 1999 -

Professor of Economics, 1982 - 1999 University of Pennsylvania

Instructor, 1948-51, 1952-53; Assistant Professor, 1953-56; Associate Professor, 1956-60;

Professor of Economics, 1960-78; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics, 1978-82. Chairman, Dept. of Economics,
1958-60, 1961-62, 1965, 1968.

Associate Dean for Budget and Planning of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1974-79. University of Warwick, England

Visiting Professor, Spring, 1978 Stanford University

Visiting Professor of Economics, 1960-61

Research Positions:

National Bureau of Economic Research

 


Member, Research Staff, 1956-66; Research Associate, 1955-56 University of Pennsylvania
Research Associate, Study of Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, 1953-55
 

Professional Organizations and Activities:
Economic History Association (Vice-President, 1971-72; President, 1979-80; Member, Council on Research in Economic History, Editorial Board, Journal of Economic Historv, 1965-70, 1974- 79;).
Population Association of America (Board of Directors, 1964-65, 1969-72; 1979; Second Vice- President, 1973-74; President, 1978; Editorial Consultant, DemQgraphy, 1965-67; Nominating Committee, 1973-74, 1979-80, Taeuber Award Selection Committee, Chairman, 1997).
American Economic Association ~oard of Editors, ~, 1965-67; Journal of ~, 1968-70, Nominating Committee 1998)
 
 
Publications
Books and Reports
Growth Triumphant: The Twentv-first Centurv in Historical PersDective, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare, 2nd edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. First edition, Basic Books, 1980.
The Fertility Revolution: A Supply-Demand Analvsis, (with Eileen M. Crimmins) Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Immigrati(m, (with D. Ward, W.S. Bernard, and R. Ueda), Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1982. Exnloratorv Study of the 'Svnthesis Framework' of Fertility Determination with WFS Core
~ (with Eileen M. Crinimins), WFS Scientific Reports, No.40, London: World Fertility Survey, 1982.
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries (editor), Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 1980.
American Economic Growth: An Economist'sHistory of the United States (edited with Lance E. Davis, and William N. Parker) New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
An Evaluation of the Family Planning Pro~ramme of the Government of India (co-author), prepared for the Government of India by a United Nations Advisory Mission, Report No. TAOIINDI5O (24 November), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1969.
Ponulation. Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience, New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective, New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Occasional Paper 79, 1962. Also published without App. C in ~, LI:5, December 1961, 869-911.
Population Redistribution and Economic Growth. United States, 1890-1950, V.1 and II (with S. Kuznets, D.S. Thomas, E.S. Lee, A.R. Miller, and C.P. Brainerd), Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1957, 1960.
The National Economic Accounts of the United States: Review Appraisal1 and Recommendation, a report to the Office of Statistical Standards, Bureau of the Budget, prepared by the National Accounts Review Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1957 (with other members of the National Accounts Review Committee.
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Articles
"The Worldwide Standard of Living Since 1800," Journal of Economic Persnectives, forthcoming Febrarry 2000.
"The Globalization of Human Development,,, Annals of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, forthcoming July 2000.
"Locational Restructuring and Financial Crisis," Structural Chan~e and Economic Dynamics forthcoming.
"How Beneficient is the Market? A Look at the Modern History of Mortality," European Review ot E~QilQIiikIiiStQr~~, December, 1999, 3:3, 257-294.
"When Flat Lines are Remarkable: An Essay in Honour of Dirk van de Kaa,', in Anton KuUsten, Henk de Gans, and Henk de FeUter (eds.), The Joy of Demograp~y... and Other Disciplines: Essays in Honor ofDirk van de Kaa, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Thela Thesis, 1999, 369-377.
"Income and Subjective Well-Being over the Life Cycle," (with Christine M. Schaeffer) in Carol D. Ryff and Victor W. Marshall, eds., The Selfand Societv in Aging Processes, New York: Springer, 1999,
279-302.
"Introduction," in Julian Simon, ~, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming.
"Materialist and Postruaterialist Values: A Comment" (with Eileen M. Crimmins) in Terry Nichols Clark and Michael Rempol, eds., Citizen Politics in Post Industrial Societies. Westview Press, 1997, 81-83.
"The Young Are Becoming More Materialistic" (with Eileen M. Crimmins) in Terry Nichols Clark and Michael Rempol, eds., Citizen Politics in Post Industrial Societies, Westview Press, 1997, 67-77.
"Mortality Reduction in East Asia and Latin America: An International Perspective" in James W. McGuire, ed., Rethinking Development in East Asia and Latin America, Pacific Council on International Policy, December 1997, 58-63.
"Twentieth Century American Population Growth, " in Engerman, Stanley and Robert E. GalIman (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History ofthe United States' Vol.111. The Twentieth Centurv forthcoming.
"U.S. Population Growth in the Twentieth Century: Trends and Differences," in M. Haines and R. Steckel, eds., ~, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
"The Story of a Reluctant Economist," ~, 41:2 (Fall), 1997, 1-11.
"Fertility and Fertility Research: Where Are They Going?" A Comment on the Macunovich Paper," in Paul L. Menchik (ed.), Household and Family Economics, Boston: KIuwer Academic Publishers, 1996,
151-157.
"Is Economic Growth the Engine Driving Improved Life Expectancy?" Newsletters of the Cliometric ~i~ty, 10:3 (October), 1995, 31-33.
"Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind?" Journal of Evolutionarv
~ 5:4, 1995, 393408.
"Preferences and Prices in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87," Journal of Economic ~ 27:1 (June), 1995, 1-34.
"Will Raising the Incomes of All Increase the Happiness of All?" Journal of Economic Behavior and ()~gamzaU£m~, 27:1 (June), 1995, 3548. Excerpted in Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and David Kiron, eds., The Consumer Society, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997, 25-27.
"Economic and Social Implications of Demographic Patterns," Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences. fourth edition, San Diego: Academic Press, 1995, 73-93.
"Echoes of the Baby Boom and Bust: Recent Changes in Intergenerational Living Arrangements of Elderly Widows in the U.S. " (with Eileen M. Crimmins, Christine Macdonald and Diane J. Macunovich),
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I~im~~graphy, 32:1 (February), 1995, 17-28.
"When Demography is Destiny: The Census Bureau's Population Projections," in Policy Responses to Demo~anhic A~in~: The Implications of PopulationAging, National Academy on Aging, Wash.D.C., 1995.
"Doug North: ~ Vadi~?", Newsletter of the Cliometric Society, 9:3, October 1994, 18-20.
"The Birth Dearth, Aging, and the Economy, " in Asefa, Sisay and Wei-Chiao Huang (eds.), Human Capital and Economic Develoi,ment, Kalamm:oo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 1994, 11-34.
"Will American Baby Boomers Be Less Well Off ""in Their Parents? Income, Wealth, and Family Circumstances over the Life Cycle," (with Christine M. Schaeffer and Diane J. Macunovich), Populat~o:l D~~pmeiiLR~xi~w, 19:3 (September), 1993, 497-522.
"Economic Status of Young and Old in the Working Age Population, 1964 and 1987" (with Eileen M. Criminins and Diane J. Macunovich), in Vern L. Bengtson and W. Andrew Achenbaum, eds., Th~j~ ~, New York: Aldine D~ruyter, 1993.
"Demographic Research and Demographic Policy," in International for the Scientific Study of Popuation, Proceedin~s of the Montreal Conference, Montreal, September, 1993.
"Should Economists Be Dependent on Official Fertility Projections?" ~ha11eng~, July-Aug., 1992, 51-
53.
"The Economic Impact of Prospective Population Changes in Advanced Industrial Countries: An Historical Perspective," Journal of Gernntolo~: Social Sciences, 46:6 (November), 1991, S299-S309.
"Private Materialism, Personal Self-Fulfillment, Family Life, and Public Interest: The Nature, Effects, and Causes of Recent Changes in the Values of American Youth, " (with Eileen M. Crimmins), Public Opinion Quarterly, 55, 1991, 499-533.
"Preference Changes Among American Youth: Family, Work, and Goods Aspirations, 1976-86," (with Eileen M. Crimmins and Yasuhiko Saito), ~, 17:1 (March), 1991,
115-133.
"How Parents Have Coped: The Effect of Life Cycle Demographic Decisions on the Economic Status of Pre-School Age Children, 1964-1987," (with Diane J. Macunovich),
June, 1990, 299-323.
"How Have American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-87," (with Christine Macdonald and Diane J. Macunovich), ~. 3, 1990,
277-290.
"Retirement Prospects of the Baby Boom Generation: A Different Perspective,"(with Christine Macdonald and Diane 3. Macunovich), Th~A~i~rcrntoi(~gist, 30:6, December, 1990, 776-783.
"Demography is Not Destiny in Higher Education,"in Arthur Levine and Associates, S~gh~r Education's Future. Demo~ranhic Realities and Opportunities, 1990-2000, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1989.
"Recent Changes in Personal Aspirations of American Youth," (with Eileen M. Crimmins), So~w1~gy and Social Research, 72:4, July, 1988, 217-223.
"The Demand for Family Planning: A New Approach, " (with K. Wongboonsin and M.A. Atuned), Studies in Familv PlanninQ, 19:5, Sept.IOct., 1988, 257-269.
"Application of Granger-Sims Causality Tests to Monthly Fertility Data, 1958-1984," (with D.J. Macunovich), Journal of Pooulation Economics, 1, 1988, 171-188.
"Determinants of Fertility Control in Egypt, 1979-80," (with E.M. Crinu~ and I.K. Taha) in A.M.
Hallouda, S.M. Farid, and S. Cochrane (eds.), Egypt: Demographic Responses to Modernization, Cairo:
Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, 1988 Also published as World Bank Technical Paper
No.87-9.
"The Impact of Modernization on the Motivation for Fertility Control, Egypt, 1979-80," (with E.M.
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Crimmins, M.A. Anmed, S.M. Soliman), in A.M. Hallouda, S.M. Farid, and S. Cochrane (eds.), EgypL
~. Cairo: Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics,
1988. Also published as World Bank Technical Paper No.87-10.
"Foreword," in Simon Kuznets, Economic Development? The Family, and Income Distribution:
SelectedEssays, Cambridge: MA: Cambridge University Press, 1989, 1-6.
"The New Age Structure of Poverty in America: Permanent or Transient?" PQpuiafi~a~ ~, 13:2, June, 1987, 195-208.
"Easterlin Hypothesis," in Eatwell, John, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, eds., The New Pal~ave, A Dictionary of Economics, New York: The Stockton Press, 1987, 14.
"Simon Kuznets," in Eatwell, John, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, eds., The New Palgrave, A ~, New York: The Stockton Press, 1987, 69-71.
"Fertility," in Eatwell, John, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, eds., The New Palgrave, A ~, New York: The Stockton Press, 1987, 302-308.
"Moses Abramovitz," in Eatwell, John, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, eds., The New Palgrave, A Dictionary of Economics, New York: The Stockton Press, 1987, 1-2.
"Economic Preconceptions and Demographic Research: A Comment," ~ Rexi~w, 12:3 (September 1986), 517-528.
"Changes in Labor Force Participation of Persons 55 and Over Since World War II: Their Nature and Causes," (with Eileen M. Crimmins and Lee Ohanian), in Pauline K. Robinson, Judy Livingston and James E. Birren, eds., Aging and Technological Advances, New York: Plenum Press, 1985.
"The Estimation of Natural Fertility: A Micro Approach, " (with Eileen M. Crimmins), ~~iai Bwl~gy, 31:1-2, (1984)160-170.
"Factors Affecting Fertility Control in India: A Cross-Sectional Study" (with K. Srinivasan, Sliireen J. Jejeebhoy and Eileen M. Crimmins), ~, 10:2 (June 1984), 273-296.
"New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975," (with Eileen M. Crimmins, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy and K. Srinivasan), E~rn~uni~ Develonment and Cultural Change, 32:2 (January 1984), 227-253.
"Reply to Rutten and Higgs," Research in Population Economics, 5 (1984), 213-215.
"Determinants of Fertility Control in Egypt, 1979-80," (with Eileen M. Crimmins and Ibrahim Khodair), Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1984
"Analysis of WFS Data in a Socio-Economic 'Synthesis' Framework, " (with Eileen M. Crimmins), ~, Manila 1981, 5 Liege, Belgium: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1983.
"Modernization and Fertility: A Critical Essay," in R.A. Bulatao and R.D. Lee, eds., L~riiiinants~f Fertility in Developing Countries, 2, New York: Academic Press, 1983, 562-586.
"The Impact of Demographic Factors on the Family Environment of Children, 1940-1995," in Richard R. Nelson and Felicity Skidmore, eds., American Families and the Economy, Washington, D.C.:
National Academy Press, 1983.
"Birth History, Age Structure, and Post World War II Fertility in Ten Developed Countries: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis" (with Marc A. Artzrouni), ~ XXXVIII:34, Sept.-Dec., 1982, 81-99.
"The Changing Circumstances of Child-Rearing," ~, 32:3, Summer, 1982,
86-98.
"Discussion," World Fertilitv Survev Conference 1980, Record of Proceedings, 2, London: World Fertility Survey, 1982.
"The Oudook for Higher Education: A Cohort Size Model of Enrollment of the College Age
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Population, 1948-2000" (with D. Ahlburg and E. Crimns), Review of Public Use, October 1981, 211-227. "Educational Attainment by Sex and Age, 1980-2000," Review of Public Data Use, 9, 1981, 323-329. 1'Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?" Journal of Economic History, XLI:1 ~arch 1981), 1-19. "American Population Since 1940, " in Martin Feldstein, ed., The American Economv in Transition,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1981. "Fertility and Development," PopulationBulletin of ECWA, 18, June 1980, 540.
"Immigration: Economic and Social Characteristics" in Stephan Thernstrom, ed., The Harvard Encvclonedia of American Etlinic Groups, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
"Introduction," in Richard A. Easterlin, ed., Population and Economic Change in Developing ~mitri~s, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 1980, 14.
"Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility" ('oint paper with Robert A. Pollak and Michael L. Wachter), in Richard A. Easterlin, ed., Population and Economic Chan~e in Develoning Countries, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 1980, 81-140.
"Homicide and Fertility Rates in the United States: A Comment, " (with Morton Owen Schapiro), SocialBiology, 26 (Winter) 1979, 341-343.
"Simon Kuznets," in The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, New York: The Free Press, 1979, 393-97.
"Population," in Glenn Porter, ed., Encvclopedia of American Economic History, vol.1, New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978, 167-82.
"Comment," in International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, ~ Conference. Mexico, 1977, Liege, Belgium: IUSSP, 1978, 137-140.
"A Model of Rural Population Growth in the American North," in Faculty of Social Sciences, ed., The Landon Report: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Historical Evolution of Southwestern Ontario. Second Annual Report, 1977-78, London, Canada: The University of Western Ontario, 1978, 165-207.
"The Economics and Sociology of Fertility: A Synthesis," in Charles Tilly, ed., Historical Studies ot ~ha'iging£~rtility, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978, 57-133.
"New Directions for the Economics of Fertility," in Milton Yinger, ed., Major Social Issues, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 310-317.
"What Will 1984 Be Like? Socioeconomic Implications of the Recent Twists in Age Structure," I~eIiM~graphy 15:4, November 1978, 397432.
"Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation in the United States: Recent Changes and Future Prospects," in International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Proceedings of the Conference on "Economic and Demographic Change: Issues for the 1980's," Helsinki, 1978, V.3, Liege, Belgium: IUSSP, 1978, 71-86.
"The Changing Impact of Population Swings on the American Economy" (with Michael L. Wachter and Susan M. Wachter), Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 122:3, June 1978, 119-130.
"Demographic Influences on Economic Stability: The United States Experience" (with Michael L. Wachter and Susan M. Wachter), ~, 4:1 (March), 1978, 1-21.
"Dorothy Stahl Brady, 1903-1977," in Journal of Economic History, 38:1 (March), 1978, 301-303.
"Farms and Farm Families in Old and New Areas: The Northern States in 1860," (1oint paper with Gretchen A. Condran and George Alter), in Tamara Hareven and Mans Vinovskis, eds., Family and Population in Nineteenth-Centurv America, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978, 22-84.
"Population Issues in American Economic History: A Survey and Critique," in Robert E. Gallman, ed.,
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Greenwich, CT: Johnson Associates, 1977, 131-158.
"Factors in the Decline of Farm Family Fertility in the United States: Some Preliminary Results," Journal of American Historv, LXIII:3 (December), 1976, 600-614.
"Population: The Economics of the Long Run," in Sidney Weintraub, ed., Some Trends in Modern E~rn~mi~~ThQliaht, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976, 485499.
"The Conflict Between Aspirations and Resources," Ponulation and Develonment Review, 2:34, Sept.-Dec., 1976, 417425.
"Suggestions for the Study of the Economic Growth of the Delaware Valley Area," in Glenn Porter, ed., Regional Economic Historv: The Mid-Aflantic Area Since 1700, Wilmington, Delaware: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1976, 17-24.
"A Note on the Recent Fertility Swing in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, and the United States" ~oint paper with Gretchen A. Condran), in Hamish Richards, ed., Ponulation Factor Movements and Economic Develonment: Studies Presented to Brinley Thomas, Cardiff: The University of Wales Press, 1976,

139-151.
"Summary Remarks," in Conference on Population and Economic Development in Taiwan, December 29 1975-January 2, 1976, Taiwan: The Institute of Economics, Academica Sinica, 1976, 665-672.
"The Effect of Moderiation on Family Reproductive Behavior," in The Population Debate:
Dimensions and Perspectives: Papers of the World Ponulation Conference Bucharest. 1974, Vol.11, New
York: United Nations, 1975, 263-277.
"Evolutions demographiques: quelques causes et consequences economiques," Eraspe~u:es (July),
1975, 47-72.
"An Economic Framework for Fertility Analysis," Studie~ in Farnilv Planrnn~, 6:3 (March), 1975,
54-63.
"Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States," Journal of Economic HistQry, 36:1 ~arch), 1976, 45-75.
"Farm Production and Income in Old and New Areas at Mid-Century, " in David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder, eds., Essavs in 19th Century Economic History, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1975.
"Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot?" in Paul A. David and Melvin W. Reder, eds., Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essavs in Honor of Moses Abramovitz. New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1974.
"Relative Economic Status and the American Fertility Swing," in Eleanor B. Sheldon, ed., Family Economic Behavior: Problems and Prospects, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott for Institute of Life Insurance,
1973.
"Comment," in A. Weintraub, E. Schwartz, and J.R. Aronson, The Economic Growth Controversv, New York: International Arts and Sciences Press, Inc., 1973.
"Commentary," in Meyer H. Fishbein, ed., The National Archives and Statistical Research, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1973, 96-98.
"Does Money Buy Happiness," The Public Interest, 3 (Winter), 1973, 3-10.
"Comment on 'Demographic Changes and American Economic Development: Past, Present and Future,"' in E.R. Morss and R.H. Reed, eds., Research Reports, Vol.11 Economic Asnects of Population ~ Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, Wash., D.C.: U.S. Govern. Printing Office, 1973.
"Population" in Neil W. Chamberlin, ed., ~, revised edition, Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin Inc., 1972, 301-352.
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"The American Population," in Lance E. Davis, Richard A. Easterlin, and William N. Parker, eds., American Economic Growth: An Economist's History of the United States, New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
"Relations between Population Pressure and Economic and Demographic Change," in International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, International Population Conference: London 1969, Vol.111, Liege, Belgium: IUSSP, 1971, 1661-1674.
"Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment?" ~, LXI:2 (May), 1971, 399407.
"Towards a Socio-Economic Theory of Fertility: A Survey of Recent Research on Economic Factors in American Fertility," in S.J. Behrman et al, eds., Fertilitv and Familv Planning: A World View, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969, 127-156.
"Comment on 'The Service Industries in the 19th Century"' in Victor R. Fuchs, ed., Pr~d~ Productivity in the Service Industries, Studies in Income and Wealth, vol. .34, New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, 352-365.
"Economic Growth: An Overview," International Encyclopedia ofthe Social Sciences, IV, New York:

Macmillan, 1968, 395408.
"Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries," The AnnR1~, vol.369 (January), 1967, 98-108.
"Economic-Demographic Interactions and Long Swings in Economic Growth," ~ ~ LVI:5 ~ecember), 1966, 1063-1104.
"On the Relation of Economic Factors to Recent and Projected Fertility Changes," L~m~igraphy, III, 1966.
"Comments on the Response of Labor Supply to the Demand of Labor," in Robert Aaron Gordon and Margaret S. Gordon, eds., ~, New York: John Wiley, 1966, 126-134.
"Discussion of New Population and Labor Force Projections," 1964 Proceedin~s of the Business and Economics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1964, 387-392.
"Is There Need for Historical Research on Underdevelopinent?" Pr~ding~, LV:2 (May), 1965, 104-108.
"Long Swings in U.S. Demographic and Economic Growth: Some Findings on the Historical Pattern," L~emograpby, II, 1965, 490-507.
"A Note on the Evidence of History," in C. Arnold Anderson and Mary Jean Bowman, eds., Education and Economic Growth, Chicago: Aldine, 1965, 422429.
"Comment on GNP Estimates, 1839-1909," in Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Income and Wealth, vol.29, 1965, 76-90.
"Comment on the Impact of Puerto Rican Migration to the United States," in Mark Perlman, ed., Human Resources in the Urban Economy, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963, 244-252.
"Regional Income Trends, 1840-1950," in Seymour E. Harris, ed., ~, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961, 525-547.
"Influences in European Overseas Emigration Before World War I," ~ C'ii1tiir~C'~~n~e, IX:3 (April), 1961, 331-351.
"Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems," Ouarterlv Journal ot E~n~mi~s, LXXV (February), 1961, 63-86.
"Implications of the Demographic History of Developed Countries for Present-Day Underdeveloped Nations," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 11:3 (April), 1960, 374-378.
"Population Change and the Demand for Services: A Comment," in Universities-National Bureau
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Committee for Economic Research, Demographic and Economic ChanRe in Develoned Countries, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1960, 517-521.
"Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950," in Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century, Studies in Income and Wealth, vol.24, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960, 73-140.
"Long Term Regional Income Changes: Some Suggested Factors," Papers and Proceedings of the Re~ional Science Association, vol. IV, 1958.
"The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects," in Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, V. 22, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.
"The Conceptual Basis of National Income Statistics--A Re-Examination of Some Basic Issues: A Comment," in ibid.
"Conceptual Issues of Regional Income Estimation: A Comment," in Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Re~ional Income, Studies in Income and Wealth, 21, Princeton Univ. Press, 1957.
"An Interpretation of the Kuznets and Department of Commerce Income Concepts in Terms of the Department of Commerce Figures, 1929/1950," Review of Economics and Statistics (February), 1953.
"Principal Consultant, Chapter F," National Income and Wealth, Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1957, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1960.
Doctoral Dissertation: "Some Conceptual Aspects of the Comparative Measurement of Economic Growth," microfilmed, 1953.
 
Review Articles:
"Review of Frank S. Levy and Richard C. Michel, The Economic Future of American Families, ~, 17:3, (September) 1991, 536-537.
"Toward the Cumulation of Demographic Knowledge," Review of Coale, Ansley J. and Susan Cotts Watkins, eds., The Decline of Fertility in Europe, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985, in Sociological Forum, 2:4 (Fall), 1987, 835-842.
"World Development Report 1984," Population and Development Review, 11:1 (March) 1985,113-119.
 
Biographical and autobiographical:
Diane J. Macunovich, "Fertility and the Easterlin Hypothesis: An Assessment of the Literature,"
~, 11:1, 1998,53-111.
Diane J. Macunovich, "A conversation with Richard Easterlin," ~ 10, 1997, pp.119-136.
Richard A. Easterlin, "The Story of a Reluctant Economist, The American Economist 41:2 (Fall), 1997, pp.1-il.
Diane J. Macunovich, "A Review of Recent Developments in the Economics of Fertility," in Paul Menchik (ed.), Household and Family Economics, Boston: KIuwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp.91-150.
Michael Parkin, ~ 2nd ed., New York: Addison-Wesley, 1993, pp.152-155.
The Newsletter of The Cliometric Society. Volume 8, No.1, February 1993.
Jean van der Tak, ~ (Interviews with Presidents and Secretary-Treasurers of the Population Association of America, PAA Oral History Project), May 1991, volume 2, pp.421436.
Easterlin, Richard Ainley, in Mark Blaug, ed., Who's Who in Economics: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists, 1700-1986, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986, 236-237. Revised ed., forthcoming 2000.