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David Lam is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on medicine and social sciences.

The scientist's work covers a range of subfields including general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, management, monitoring, policy and law, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and economics and econometrics.

Key areas of study and topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges

David Lam has published research in several scholarly venues, with contributions to:

  • Population and Development Review
  • Population and Environment
  • The Journal of Human Resources
  • Gastroenterology Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "The Next 2 Billion: Can the World Support 10 Billion People?" (2024) published in Population and Development Review
  • "Has the world survived the population bomb? A 10-year update" (2023) published in Population and Environment
  • "Barriers to Hepatitis C Virus Care and How Federally Qualified Health Centers Can Improve Patient Access to Treatment" (2022) published in Gastroenterology Research
  • "Reduced fertility from better access to contraception may not improve women's health" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Is There a Male-Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes" (2020) published in The Journal of Human Resources

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ariel Binder, Robert J. Wong, Adla Tessier, Yenice Zapata, and Elsie Saldana.

Best Publications

  • Effects of Family Background on Earnings and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from Brazil

    David Lam;Robert F. Schoeni

  • Marriage Markets and Assortative Mating with Household Public Goods Theoretical Results and Empirical Implications

    David Lam

  • Effects of economic shocks on children's employment and schooling in Brazil

    Suzanne Duryea;David Lam;Deborah Levison

  • Effects of schooling on fertility labor supply and investments in children with evidence from Brazil.

    David Lam;Suzanne Duryea

  • Paternal Care by Genetic Fathers and Stepfathers II: Reports by Xhosa High School Students

    Kermyt G Anderson;Hillard Kaplan;David Lam;Jane Lancaster

  • Family size and children’s education in Vietnam

    Truong Si Anh;John Knodel;David Lam;Jed Friedman

  • Declining inequality in schooling in Brazil and its effects on inequality in earnings

    David A. Lam;Deborah Levison

  • Causes and consequences of schooling outcomes in South Africa: Evidence from survey data

    Kermyt G. Anderson;Anne Case;David Lam

  • Generating Extreme Inequality: Schooling, Earnings, and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in South Africa and Brazil. Research Report.

    David Lam

  • Seasonality of births in human populations.

    David A. Lam;Jeffrey A. Miron

  • Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa

    David Lam;Cally Ardington;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Demographic variables and income inequality

    David Lam

  • How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic History

    David Lam

  • The effects of temperature on human fertility

    David A. Lam;Jeffrey A. Miron

  • Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, and Schooling among Young People in Urban South Africa

    Letícia Marteleto;David Lam;Vimal Ranchhod

  • Progress through school and the determinants of school dropout in South Africa

    Nicola Branson;Clare Hofmeyr;David Lam

  • The dynamics of population growth differential fertility and inequality.

    D. Lam

  • Global Patterns of Seasonal Variation in Human Fertility

    David A. Lam;Jeffrey A. Miron

  • Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town

    Taryn Dinkelman;David Lam;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Household and community income, economic shocks and risky sexual behavior of young adults: evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002 and 2005

    Taryn Dinkelman;David Lam;Murray Leibbrandt

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray Leibbrandt
Murray Leibbrandt University of Cape Town
Jeffrey A. Miron
Jeffrey A. Miron Cato Institute
Robert F. Schoeni
Robert F. Schoeni University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John Knodel
John Knodel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Hillard Kaplan
Hillard Kaplan Chapman University

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