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According to Wikipedia, David Shapiro is an American economist at the Pennsylvania State University. He joined the Penn State faculty in 1980. He is a leading academic in the field of Economic Demography, specializing in fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa and in the study of children's schooling in Africa. In addition to research and teaching, Shapiro currently heads the economics honors program and previously served as first director and then co-director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics.

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Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Falling and Stalling (2013) (166)
Long-Term Employment and Earnings of Women in Relation to Employment Behavior Surrounding the First Birth (1994) (119)
Fertility, Timing of Births and Socio-economic Status in France and Britain (2002) (113)
The impact of women's employment and education on contraceptive use and abortion in Kinshasa, Zaire. (1994) (108)
Gender, poverty, family structure, and investments in children's education in Kinshasa, Congo (2001) (89)
Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends, Determinants, and Consequences (2017) (73)
Work Expectations, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Wages of Young Women (1980) (72)
Racial Differences in Access to High-Paying Jobs and the Wage Gap between Black and White Women (1996) (65)
An Exchange: The Theory of Human Capital and the Earnings of Women: A Reexamination of the Evidence (1978) (53)
Women’s education and fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa (2012) (52)
Growth in the labor force attachment of married women: accounting for changes in the 1970s. (1983) (48)
Education, employment, and fertility in Kinshasa and prospects for changes in reproductive behavior (1997) (48)
Age Discrimination in Wages and Displaced Older Men (1985) (48)
Fertility Transition in Urban and Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Preliminary Evidence of a Three-Stage Process (2002) (47)
Exposure to the 'SIDA dans la Cité' AIDS prevention television series in Côte d'Ivoire, sexual risk behaviour and condom use (2003) (47)
Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility (2003) (42)
Aspirations and Expectations of Youth in the United States (1982) (40)
Fertility Transition in Urban and Rural Areas of Sub-Saharan Africa (1999) (40)
Family Background and Early Life Course Transitions in Kinshasa. (1996) (36)
Fertility decline in Kinshasa. (1996) (34)
Stalling of Fertility Transitions and Socioeconomic Change in the Developing World: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys* (2010) (33)
Complementarity of work and fertility among young American mothers. (1983) (31)
The Theory of Human Capital and the Earnings of Women: A Re-examination of the Evidence. Revised. (1976) (30)
FARM SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND COMPOSITION, AND WOMEN'S CONTRIBUTION TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION: EVIDENCE FROM ZAIRE (1990) (29)
Relative wage effects of unions in the public and private sectors (1978) (28)
Women's Work Plans: Contrasting Expectations and Actual Work Experience. (1987) (28)
Aspirations and Expectations of Youth in the United States (1982) (28)
On the pace of fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa (2017) (24)
Population growth, changing agricultural practices, and environmental degradation in Zaire (1993) (23)
Buffering Inequalities : The Safety Net of Extended Families in Cameroon (2005) (20)
Economic Integration of New Immigrants in the Montreal Labor Market: A Longitudinal Approach (2002) (19)
Access to Schooling and Staying in School in Selected Sub‐Saharan African Countries (2015) (19)
Wage Differentials among Black, Hispanic, and White Young Men (1984) (19)
Women’s education, infant and child mortality, and fertility decline in rural and urban sub-Saharan Africa (2017) (19)
ENDURING ECONOMIC HARDSHIP, WOMEN'S EDUCATION, MARRIAGE AND FERTILITY TRANSITION IN KINSHASA (2014) (13)
School enrollment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: family economic well-being, gender and place of residence (2012) (13)
Employment, Education, and Fertility Behavior: Evidence From Kinshasa (1991) (12)
Gender, education, and the labour market in Kinshasa* (2011) (11)
Unions and Wages: Relative Wage Effects of Unions in the Public and Private Sectors (1978) (9)
Socioeconomic Progress and Fertility Transition in the Developing World: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys* (2009) (9)
The reach of the "SIDA dans la Cite" AIDS prevention television series in Cote dIvoire. (1999) (8)
Women's Education, Infant and Child Mortality, and Fertility Decline in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Quantitative Assessment (2015) (7)
Biological Effects of First Birth Postponement and Assisted Reproductive Technology on Completed Fertility (2017) (7)
Gender poverty and school enrollment in Kinshasa Zaire. (1995) (7)
Accelerating Fertility Decline in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015) (6)
EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, AND FERTILITY BEHAVIOR IN KINSHASA: SOME PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE** (2013) (6)
Continuity of work attachment among new mothers. (1982) (6)
FAMILY INFLUENCES ON WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IN KINSHASA (5)
Labor supply behavior of prospective and new mothers (1979) (5)
Selective Adult Migration and Urban-Rural Mortality Differentials in Burkina Faso (2017) (4)
Target Audience Reach of the Sida Dans La Cité AIDS Prevention Television Series in C⊚te D'ivoire (2000) (4)
Recent Demographic Developments in France: Marked Differences between Départements (2017) (3)
Mortality convergence of twins and singletons in sub-Saharan Africa (2019) (3)
FERTILITY, ETHNICITY, AND EDUCATION IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (2017) (3)
Fertility in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2001) (3)
Fertility Diffenrentials by Education and Employment in Kinshasa and Prospects for Changes in Fertility Behavior (1992) (3)
Ethnicity, Education, and Fertility Transition in Kinshasa, Congo. Working Paper 2-97-1. Revised. (1998) (3)
Extended-Family Solidarity: Interhouse Resource Transfer for Children's Schooling and Child Fostering in Kinshasa (1995) (3)
The Third Biggest African Country: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (2017) (3)
Labor force attachment of married women age 30 to 34: an intercohort comparison. (1982) (2)
Work and motherhood: the dynamics of labor force participation surrounding the first birth (1977) (2)
Poverty womens schooling and economic activity in Kinshasa. (1994) (1)
Gender, Economic Well-being, and Children's Access to Schooling in Kinshasa: Outcomes in the Presence of Prolonged Economic Crisis* (2010) (1)
Effects of selected variables on work hours of young women (2003) (1)
Seasonal variations in labor-force activity and intrahousehold substitution of labor in rural Kenya. (1984) (1)
Womens employment education contraception and abortion in Kinshasa. (1994) (1)
Laggards in the global fertility transition (2020) (1)
Fertility and the Status of Women in Kinshasa (1992) (1)
Fertility Transition: Sub-Saharan Africa (2015) (1)
Women's Employment, Education, Fertility, and Family Planning in Vietnam: An Economic Perspective (1996) (1)
Ethnicity, Education, and Fertility in Kinshasa, Congo (1997) (1)
Women's Employment, Education and Contraceptive Behaviour in Kinshasa (1991) (0)
Missing Twins: Fetal Origins, Institutions, and Twin-Singleton Mortality Convergence (2017) (0)
Determinants and Consequences of Young Women's Access to Education in Kinshasa, Congo. Final Report to the Small Grants Program. (1998) (0)
Modernization, Ethnicity and Fertility in Kinshasa, Zaire (1997) (0)
ESTIMATION OF UNION/NONUNION WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WITHIN OCCUPATIONAL/REGIONAL SUBGROUPS* (2016) (0)
Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends, Determinants, and Consequences (2013) (0)
Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility in Kinshasa, Congo, 1955-1990: A Descriptive Overview. Working Paper 10-97-1. (1997) (0)
OF LADYBUGS AND CHINDONYA : The Cultural 'In-between' in Stories for Children (2004) (0)
A Step Back in Time? An Analysis of Earnings and Occupations of African- American and White Women (1993) (0)

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