David Shapiro's Information
POSITION TITLE: Professor of Economics, Demography, and Women's Studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Fertility; labor force; economic development.
RESEARCH AREAS:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Family Processes
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
1969-1970 Doctoral Fellow, Alberta Human Resources Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1971-1972 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, The Ohio State University
1972-1978 Assistant Professor of Economics, The Ohio State University
1976-1980 Senior Research Associate, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University
1978-1979 Fulbright Lecturer, Department of Demography/Faculty of Economic Sciences, National University of Zaire
1980 Technical Advisor, Program and Studies Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Zaire (for United States Agency for International Development)
1980-1985 Assistant Professor of Economics; Faculty Associate, Population Issues Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University
1984-1986 Chief of Party, Zaire Agricultural Sector Studies Project, Studies and Planning Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Zaire (for United States Agency for International Development)
1989-1990 Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Department of Demography/Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Kinshasa, Zaire
1994 U.S. Department of Education Faculty Research Abroad Program Professor, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and University of Kinshasa (Zaire)
1985-1998 Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies; Senior Research Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
2004-2005 Fulbright Lecturer, University of Kinshasa, Department of Population Sciences and Development, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1998-Present Professor of Economics, Demography, and Women's Studies; Senior Research Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2002 President's Award for Engagement with Students, The Pennsylvania State University
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Sandell, S.
and
D. Shapiro
(1978).
"The Theory of Human Capital and the Earnings of Women: A Reexamination of the Evidence."
Journal of Human Resources 13(1):103-117.
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Shapiro, D.
(1978).
"Relative Wage Effects of Unions in the Public and Private Sectors."
Industrial and Labor Relations Review 31(2):193-204.
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Shapiro, D.
and
F. Mott
(1979).
"Labor Supply Behavior of Prospective and New Mothers."
Demography 16(2):199-208.
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Sandell, S.
and
D. Shapiro
(1980).
"Work Expectations, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Wages of Young Women."
Journal of Human Resources 15(3):335-353.
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Mott, F.
and
D. Shapiro
(1983).
"Complementarity of Work and Fertility Among Young American Mothers."
Population Studies 37(2):239-252.
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Shapiro, D.
and
L. Shaw
(1983).
"Growth in the Labor Force Attachment of Married Women: Accounting for Changes in the 1970s."
Southern Economic Journal 50(2):461-473.
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Shapiro, D.
(1984).
"Wage Differentials Among Black, Hispanic, and White Young Men."
Industrial and Labor Relations Review 37(4):570-581.
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Shapiro, D.
and
F. Mott
(1984).
"Seasonal Variations in Labor Force Activity and Intrahousehold Substitution of Labor in Rural Kenya."
Journal of Developing Areas 18(4):449-463.
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Shapiro, D.
and
S. Sandell
(1985).
"Age Discrimination in Wages and Displaced Older Men."
Southern Economic Journal 51(1):90-102.
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Shapiro, D.
(1990).
"Farm Size, Household Size and Composition, and Women's Contribution to Agricultural Production, Evidence from Zaire."
Journal of Development Studies 27(1):1-21.
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Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(1992).
"Employment, Education, and Fertility Behavior in Kinshasa: Some Preliminary Evidence."
African Population Studies 7:1-25.
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Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(1993).
"Fertility and the Status of Women in Kinshasa."
Proceedings of the 1993 General Conference, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population 1:325-350.
Shapiro, D.
(1994).
"Long-Term Employment and Earnings of Women in Relation to Employment Behavior Surrounding the First Birth."
Journal of Human Resources 29(2):248-276.
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Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(1994).
"The Impact of Women's Employment and Education on Contraceptive Use and Abortion in Kinshasa, Zaire."
Studies in Family Planning 25(2):96-110.
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Shapiro, D.
(1995).
"Population Growth, Changing Agricultural Practices, and Environmental Degradation in Zaire."
Population and Environment 16(3):221-236.
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Anderson, D.
and
D. Shapiro
(1996).
"Racial Differences in Access to High-Paying Jobs and the Wage Gap between Black and White Women."
Industrial and Labor Relations Review 49(2):273-286.
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Shapiro, D.
(1996).
"Fertility Decline in Kinshasa."
Population Studies 50(1):89-103.
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Shapiro, D.
(1996).
"Women's Employment, Education, Fertility, and
Family Planning in Vietnam: An Economic Perspective." In
Barry, K.
(Ed.)
, Vietnam's Women in Transition.
St. Martin's Press.
(pp. 123-143)
Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(1996).
"Family Background and Early Life Course Transitions in Kinshasa."
Journal of Marriage & the Family 58(4):1029-1037.
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Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(1997).
"Education, Employment, and Fertility in Kinshasa and Prospects for Changes in Reproductive Behavior."
Population Research and Policy Review 16(3):259-287.
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Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(1999).
"Gender, Poverty, and School Enrollment in Kinshasa, Congo." In
Union for African Population Studies and National Population Unit
(Ed.)
, The African Population in the 21st Century, Third African Population Conference, Durban, South Africa, 1999, Vol. 3.
(pp. 587-616)
Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(2001).
"Gender, Poverty, Family Structure, and Investments in Children's Education in Kinshasa, Congo."
Economics of Education Review 20(4):359-375.
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Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(2002).
"Fertility Transition in Urban and Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Preliminary Evidence of a Three-Stage Process."
Journal of African Policy Studies 8(2&3):103-127.
Shapiro, D.
(2003).
"Family Influences on Women's Educational Attainment in Kinshasa." In
Cosio, M.
et al.
(Eds.)
, Education, Family and Population Dynamics.
Paris:
Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED).
(pp. 281-304)
Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(2003).
Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
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Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(2003).
"Villes et transition de la fécondité en Afrique au sud du Sahara." In
Eggerickx, T.
et al.
(Eds.)
, Populations et défis urbains. Actes de la Chaire Quetelet 1999 (selected papers from the annual Chaire Quetelet symposium in demography.
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium:
Academia-Bruylant/L'Harmattan.
(pp. 605-625)
Shapiro, D.
,
D. Meekers
and
B.O. Tambashe
(2003).
"Exposure to the 'SIDA dans la Cite' AIDS Prevention Television Series in Cote d'Ivoire, Sexual Risk Behaviour and Condom Use."
AIDS Care 15(3):303-314.
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Eloundou-Enyegue, P.M.
and
D. Shapiro
(2005).
"Confiage d'enfants et nivellement des inégalités scolaires au Cameroun, 1960-1995."
Cahiers québécois de démographie 34(1):47-75.
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Shapiro, D.
and
B.O. Tambashe
(2007).
"Fertility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
Population Bulletin of the United Nations 46/47:239-250.
Shapiro, D.
and
T. Gebreselassie
(2008).
"Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Falling and Stalling."
African Population Studies 23(1):3-23.
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