Selected Publications
*Note: many of the following selected papers are freely downloadable from the following websites or the web pages dedicated to specific topics and areas of research linked to Isaac Ehrlich’s home page.
http://ideas.repec.org/e/peh1.html
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=188351
http://www.nber.org/cgi-bin/author_papers.pl?author=isaac_ehrlich
JOURNAL ARTICLES*
"Market Insurance, Self-Insurance and Self-Protection" (with G. Becker), lead article, Journal of Political Economy (July-August 1972).
"Participation in Illegitimate Activities--A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation", lead article, Journal of Political Economy (May-June 1973).
"The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment--A Question of Life and Death", American Economic Review (June1975).
"Asset Management, Allocation of Time and Returns to Savings" (with U. Ben-Zion), Economic Inquiry (December 1976).
"Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Some Further Thoughts and Additional Evidence", Journal of Political Economy Aug, 1977.
"On the Usefulness of Controlling Individuals: An Economic Analysis of Rehabilitation, Incapacitation and Deterrence", American Economic Review (June 1981).
"The Derived Demand for Advertising: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation" (with L. Fisher), American Economic Review (June 1982).
"The Optimum Enforcement of Laws and the Concept of Justice: A Positive Analysis", lead article, International Review of Law and Economics (June 1982).
"On the Issue of Causality in Crime Control" (w/ G.Brower), American Economic Review (May 1987).
"The Demand for Longevity and the Value of Life Extension" (with H. Chuma), Journal of Political Economy (August1990).
"The Problem of Development-Introduction" Journal of Political Economy (October 1990).
"Intergenerational Trade, Longevity, and Economic Growth" (with F. Lui), Journal of Political Economy (October1991).
"Productivity Growth and Firm Ownership" (with G. Gallais-Hamonno, R. Lutter and Z. Liu), Journal of Political Economy (October1994).
"Optimal Portfolio and Consumption Decisions in a Stochastic Environment with Precommitment" (with W.A. Hamlen, Jr.), lead article, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (April 1995).
"Crime, Punishment, and the Market for Offenses", Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 1996).
"Social Security and the Real Economy: An Inquiry into Some neglected Issues" (with J. Zhong), American Economic Review (May 1998).
"Social Security, the Family, and Economic Growth" (with F. Lui), Economic Inquiry (July 1998).
"Sensitivity Analyses of the Deterrence Hypothesis: Let's Keep the Econ in Econometrics" (with Z. Liu), Journal of Law and Economics (April 1999).
"Bureaucratic Corruption and Economic growth", with F. T. Lui, Journal of Political Economy (October 1999).
"Uncertain Lifetime, Life Protection, and the Value of Life Saving", Journal of Health Economics (May 2000).
“The Growth-Inequality Nexus without Borrowing Restrictions or Government Intervention: Some Implications from a Prototype Model”, with C.W. Yuen, Annals of Economics and Finance Vol. 1, December 2000, 283-301.
"Social Security: From Pay-As-You-Go Systems to an Individual-Based Capitalization System" (text in English; title in Spanish: Prevision social: de los regimens de reparto a los de capitalizacion individual). Published as part of a three articles series ("Conferencias"), along with contributions by Gary Becker and Joseph Stiglitz. Revista de Ciencias Empresariales Y Economia, vol 2 (2003).
“Endogenous Fertility, Longevity, and Economic Dynamics: Using a Malthusian Framework to Account for the Historical Evidence on Population and Economic Growth”, with Jinyoung Kim, Journal of Asian Economics, issue 15 (6) 2005, 789-806.
“Explaining Diversities in Age-Specific Life Expectancies and Values of Life Saving: A Numerical Analysis”, with Yong Yin, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 31(2) 2005, 129-162.
“Economics of Crime” in The Encyclopedia of law and Society, edited by David S. Clark, Sage Publications, CA: Thousand Oaks, 2006.
“Has Social Security influenced family formation and fertility in OECD countries? An economic and econometric analysis”, with Jinyoung Kim, Journal of Pharmaceuticals Policy and Law, Vol. 9, 2007,
pp.99-120.
“Social Security and Demographic trends: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience”, with Jinyoung Kim, Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 10 (1) 2007, 55-77.
“Why does Human Capital Need a Journal, with Kevin Murphy, Journal of Human capital, lead article, vol. 1, December 2007, pp. 1-9.
The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development: A Human
Capital Perspective”, with Jinyoung Kim, Journal of Human Capital, Vol 1 (1) December 2007, 137-174.
“Economics of Deterrence – Theory” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke and New York ), May 2008.
“Asset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets”, with William Hamlen Jr. and Yong Yin, NBER Working Papers # 14340, August 2008, forthcoming in Journal of Human Capital.
BOOKS & COLLECTIONS
The Mystery of Capital and the New Philosophy of Social Reality (editor with Barry Smith and David Mark), Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago , June, 2008.
National Health Policy: What Role for Government (editor), Proceedings of the Conference on National Health Policy held at Stanford University in March of 1980, Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1982.
The Problem of Development (editor), Journal of Political Economy (October 1990).