While exceptionally high Palestinian fertility has been featured prominently in the academic literature and the news press, dramatic drops in fertility have been noted in …
This dissertation evaluates the impact of public policies and economic conditions on human capital investment decisions. Chapter 1 examines the wide-ranging effects of subsidizing college …
The extent to which fixed natural resources effect economic growth in the face of population growth has been a widely discussed topic in economics since …
The progression from embryo to reproductive adult to death describes the fundamental life history of an organism. From the perspective of evolutionary biology, life histories …
Historically, the TFIID complex has been viewed as part of the general transcriptional apparatus; however, recent studies demonstrate that it is flexible in its constituents …
Income inequality has risen steadily since the mid-20th century, while the current concentration of wealth in the hands of the 0.1% rivals that of the …
The relationship between women’s employment and fertility generally shows an inverse relationship in industrialized societies. Italy is an exception in this regard because it exhibits …