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Biased Technological Progress and Labor Force Growth in a Dualistic Economy

Kelley, Allen; Williamson, Jeffrey G.; Cheetham, R. J. (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1972)

Asian development in the 1970's is likely to take place under conditions quite different from those typical of the past two decades. These changing conditions will have an important influence on the research focus relating ...
Demand Patterns, Demographic Change, and Economic Growth

Kelley, Allen (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1969)

I. Introduction, 110. II. The model, 112.- III. The model and Philippine experience, 115.- IV. Demand patterns, (demographic change, and economic growth, 120.- V. Implications and conclusions, 124.- Appendix, 125.
Demographic Cycles and Economic Growth: The Long Swing Reconsidered

Kelley, Allen (Journal of Economic History, 1969-12)

For many Western countries the history of the last two centuries reveals both a sustained rise in per capita output and a tendency toward a more equal distribution of the economic product. The experience has been characterized, ...
Demographic Impacts on Demand Patterns in the Low-Income Setting

Kelley, Allen (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1981-10)

Examines the impact of alternative demographic structures (number and ages of children) on the composition of household demand, in order to ascertain the appropriate functional form of such relationships and to identify ...
Economic Consequences of Population Change in the Third World

Kelley, Allen (Journal of Economic Literature, 1988)

The impact of rapid population growth on economic development in third world countries is explored. "Section I provides an empirical point of reference by summarizing some of the salient demographic trends in the Third ...
Economic Efficiency and the Distribution of Benefits from College Instruction

Kelley, Allen; Hansen, W. Lee; Weisbrod, Burton A. (American Economic Review, 1970)

Economic efficiency implies an equating, at the margin, of benefits and costs. In this paper we explore a concept of "efficiency" which is broader than the usual framework and which applies to commodities and services ...
Economics of the Family: Marriage, Children and Human Capital

Kelley, Allen (Journal of Economic Literature, 1976)

No Abstract available
An Experiment with TIPS: A Computer-Aided Instructional System for Undergraduate Education

Kelley, Allen (American Economic Review, 1968)

Computer-aided instruction, while admitted by many to have great teaching potential, has remained for most a phenomenon belonging to the twenty-first century. The presumed necessity of expensive machines and computers, ...
Household Savings Behavior in the Developing Economies: The Indonesian Case

Kelley, Allen; Williamson, J. G. (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1968-04)

Econometric research on the determinants of household saving based on micro data drawn from the less developed countries has lagged far behind the pace set in advanced nations. It would appear that there has been limited ...
Improving the Teaching of Economics: Achievements and Aspirations

Kelley, Allen; Bach, G. L. (American Economic Review, 1984)

Achievements and possible future projects of the American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Education (CEE), whose goal is to improve teaching in college and university economics, are discussed. The Teacher ...
International Migration and Economic Growth: Australia, 1865-1935

Kelley, Allen (Journal of Economic History, 1965-09)

The nature of migration into Australia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provides much valuable material relating to the mechanism of interregional population transfers during one of the most important periods of ...
The Limits to Urban Growth: Suggestions for Macromodeling Third World Economies

Kelley, Allen; Williamson, J. G. (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1982-04)

Section II illustrates how existing macro models of the Third World are "pro-urban" biased: typically they minimize the potential limits to urban growth and are silent on the issue of overurbanization. Section III lists ...
Population Pressures, Saving, and Investment in the Third World: Some Puzzles

Kelley, Allen (The University of Chicago Press, 1988-04)

Two arguments are often made concerning the adverse impacts of rapid population growth on the rate of economic development.' The first is Malthusian in origin: a relatively "fixed" (or slow growing) resource (land, ...
Sources of Growth Methodology in Low-Income Countries: A Critique

Kelley, Allen; Williamson, Jeffrey G. (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1973)

I. Introduction, 138.--II. A general equilibrium model of the growing low-income economy, 139.--III. The sources of growth paradox, 141.--IV. An analysis of the sources of growth paradox, 144.--V. Conclusion, 147.
TIPS and Technical Change in Classroom Instruction

Kelley, Allen (American Economic Review, 1972)

This paper presents some research results on the efficiency of a teaching technique (TIPS) I have used in the Principles of Economics course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My presentation will be extremely selective; ...
Writing History Backwards: Meiji Japan Revisited

Kelley, Allen; Williamson, J. G. (Journal of Economic History, 1971-12)

In following the paths of historical development .. the analyst finds himself ... engaged in the rather thankless task of trying to derive known from unkown or, at least, better known from less well known facts. Would it ...