Fresh Research in Population Economics: National identity, single motherhood, clan culture, premature mortality and other issues of concern.

Journal of Population Economics. Volume 32 Number 2 is now available online.

Ten new articles in Population Economics are published, see listing and access below. Ten new Associate Editors have been appointed; see their names below. The freely accessible Lead Article is listed first.

Lead Article (free access for some weeks)

National identity under economic integration
Chun-Fang Chiang, Jin-Tan Liu & Tsai-Wei Wen

This study empirically investigates how economic integration influences individuals’ national identity. Due to historical reasons and unique cross-strait politics, some people in Taiwan identify themselves as Chinese while others identify themselves as Taiwanese. Using individual survey data with the outward investment data at the industry level from 1992 to 2009, we find that the rising investment in China has strengthened Taiwanese identity and has reduced the probability of voting for the Pan-Blue parties. The effects are much stronger for unskilled workers than for skilled workers, suggesting that outward investment in China may not only have economic impact on the economy but may also deepen the political polarization in Taiwan.

In this issue: TABLE OF CONTENT and article access
National identity under economic integration
Chun-Fang Chiang, Jin-Tan Liu & Tsai-Wei Wen
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Concrete measures: the rise of public housing and changes in young
single motherhood in the U.S.
Katharine L. Shester, Samuel K. Allen & Christopher Handy
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Does public insurance coverage for pregnant women affect prenatal
health behaviors?
Dhaval M. Dave, Robert Kaestner & George L. Wehby
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Closing or reproducing the gender gap? Parental transmission, social norms and education choice
Maria Knoth Humlum, Anne Brink Nandrup & Nina Smith
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Intergenerational income mobility: access to top jobs, the low-pay
no-pay cycle and the role of education in a common framework
Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan & Claudia Vitto
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Family support or social support? The role of clan culture
Chuanchuan Zhang
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Revisiting the relationship between longevity and lifetime education: global evidence from 919 surveys
Mohammad Mainul Hoque, Elizabeth M. King, Claudio E. Montenegro & Peter F. Orazem
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Rising longevity, fertility dynamics, and R&D-based growth
Koichi Futagami & Kunihiko Konishi
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Premature mortality and poverty measurement in an OLG economy
Mathieu Lefèbvre, Pierre Pestieau & Gregory Ponthiere
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Unequal hopes and lives in the USA: optimism, race, place, and
premature mortality
Carol Graham & Sergio Pinto
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Newly appointed Associate Editors of the Journal of Population Economics

  • Quamrul Ashraf, Williams College, USA
  • Andrew Clark, Paris School of Economics, France
  • Avraham Ebenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
  • Moshe Hazan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
  • Terra McKinnish, University of Colorado, USA
  • Jessamyn Schaller, University of Arizon, USA
  • Kompal Sinha, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • Rainer Winkelmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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