David Lam

4.7k total citations
76 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

David Lam is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Lam has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Safety Research and 22 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in David Lam's work include Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (26 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (20 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (16 papers). David Lam is often cited by papers focused on Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (26 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (20 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (16 papers). David Lam collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Norway. David Lam's co-authors include Jeffrey A. Miron, Suzanne Duryea, Robert F. Schoeni, Deborah Levison, Murray Leibbrandt, Kermyt G. Anderson, Letícia J. Marteleto, Cally Ardington, Vimal Ranchhod and Anne Case and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association and American Economic Review.

In The Last Decade

David Lam

72 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Lam United States	27	1.1k	819	787	583	582	76	2.7k
Anna Aizer United States	20	922 0.9×	695 0.8×	369 0.5×	636 1.1×	286 0.5×	47	2.6k
Cynthia B. Lloyd United States	36	1.4k 1.3×	1.4k 1.7×	1.5k 2.0×	573 1.0×	539 0.9×	82	3.9k
Lisa Cameron Australia	28	1.1k 1.1×	350 0.4×	1.0k 1.3×	837 1.4×	427 0.7×	80	3.0k
Paul J. Devereux Ireland	30	2.1k 2.0×	1.2k 1.5×	824 1.0×	1.2k 2.0×	846 1.5×	115	4.9k
Sonia Bhalotra United Kingdom	28	738 0.7×	920 1.1×	951 1.2×	502 0.9×	245 0.4×	129	3.0k
Caroline Bledsoe United States	26	959 0.9×	694 0.8×	399 0.5×	164 0.3×	467 0.8×	63	2.3k
Bhashkar Mazumder United States	30	1.8k 1.7×	341 0.4×	271 0.3×	909 1.6×	297 0.5×	93	3.4k
David C. Ribar United States	28	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	343 0.4×	519 0.9×	601 1.0×	98	2.6k
Elaina Rose United States	13	767 0.7×	855 1.0×	397 0.5×	317 0.5×	506 0.9×	22	1.6k
Michael J. White United States	38	2.6k 2.4×	460 0.6×	283 0.4×	755 1.3×	495 0.9×	103	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by David Lam

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Lam

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Lam

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lam, David. (2024). The Next 2 Billion: Can the World Support 10 Billion People?. Population and Development Review. 51(1). 63–102. 12 indexed citations

Lam, David. (2023). Has the world survived the population bomb? A 10-year update. Population and Environment. 45(2). 10–10. 9 indexed citations

Lam, David, et al.. (2022). Barriers to Hepatitis C Virus Care and How Federally Qualified Health Centers Can Improve Patient Access to Treatment. Gastroenterology Research. 15(6). 343–352.

Binder, Ariel & David Lam. (2020). Is There a Male-Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes. The Journal of Human Resources. 57(6). 1885–1914. 12 indexed citations

Lam, David, Guilherme Sedlacek, & Suzanne Duryea. (2016). Increase in women´s education and fertility decline in Brazil. Anais. 89–118. 3 indexed citations

Lam, David. (2016). The Impact of Race on Earnings and Human Capital in Brazil, South Africa and the United States. Anais. 37(9). 1–26. 1 indexed citations

Collins, P G, et al.. (2015). Longevity Risk and Retirement Income Planning. 1 indexed citations

Lam, David, Letícia J. Marteleto, & Vimal Ranchhod. (2013). The Influence of Older Classmates on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Cape Town, South Africa. Studies in Family Planning. 44(2). 147–167. 19 indexed citations

Ranchhod, Vimal, et al.. (2011). Estimating the effect of adolescent fertility on educational attainment in Cape Town using a propensity score weighted regression. SSRN Electronic Journal. 17 indexed citations

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Ardington, Cally, Nicola Branson, David Lam, & Murray Leibbrandt. (2011). Explaining the persistence of racial gaps inschooling in South Africa. African Population Studies. 25(2). 2 indexed citations

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Marteleto, Letícia J., David Lam, & Vimal Ranchhod. (2008). Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, and Schooling Among Young People in Urban South Africa. Studies in Family Planning. 39(4). 351–368. 89 indexed citations

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Dinkelman, Taryn, David Lam, & Murray Leibbrandt. (2007). Household and community income, economic shocks and risky sexual behavior of young adults: evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002 and 2005. AIDS. 21(Suppl 7). S49–S56. 56 indexed citations

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Ardington, Cally, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, & James Levinsohn. (2004). Savings, Insurance and Debt over the Post-Apartheid Period: A Review of Recent Research. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2 indexed citations

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Bergstrom, Théodore C. & David Lam. (1994). The Effects of Cohort Size on Marriage Markets in Twentieth-Century Sweden. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 46–63. 23 indexed citations

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Lam, David & Jeffrey A. Miron. (1994). Global Patterns of Seasonal Variation in Human Fertilitya. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 709(1). 9–28. 103 indexed citations

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Lam, David & Jeffrey A. Miron. (1991). Seasonality of births in human populations. Biodemography and Social Biology. 38(1-2). 51–78. 120 indexed citations

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Bergstrom, Théodore C. & David Lam. (1989). The two-sex problem and the marriage squeeze in an equilibrium model of marriage markets.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 11 indexed citations

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Bergstrom, Théodore C. & David Lam. (1989). Recovering event histories by cubic spline interpolation. Mathematical Population Studies. 1(4). 327–355. 3 indexed citations

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Lam, David. (1987). Assortative Mating with Household Public Goods. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1(6652). 423–5. 4 indexed citations

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Lam, David. (1986). The dynamics of population growth differential fertility and inequality.. American Economic Review. 76(5). 1103–1116. 75 indexed citations

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