Paul A. David papers SC1610

Bradley Strauss, Hanna Ahn

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

May 2023

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Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Paul A. David papers

Identifier/Call Number: SC1610

Physical Description: 40.5 (27 cartons) Linear Feet

Date (inclusive): 1950-2010

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Language of Material: English .

Biographical / Historical

Paul A. David (1935-2023) was an economic historian at Stanford best known for his research on technological change and how it affects social and economic behavior. A professor emeritus of economics in the School of Humanities and Sciences, David led the effort to found the Center for Economic Policy Research, now called the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and served as a senior fellow there.

Paul David earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University in 1956 and then spent two years studying economic history at the University of Cambridge as a Fulbright scholar. In 1958, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate. In 1961, he accepted a job offer from Stanford as an assistant professor of economics. He earned tenure in 1966 and became a full professor in 1969.

In 1978, he was appointed the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History. From 1979 to 1983, David served as chair of the Department of Economics. During this time, he proposed the creation of the Center for Economic Policy Research. He chaired the planning group for the center.

David authored or co-authored hundreds of articles and book chapters and co-edited several books. He served on the editorial boards of roughly 10 journals, including those of the Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and Historical Methods. He also was editor of Economics of Innovation and New Technology.

Among his many honors, he was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the British Academy. He served terms as president of the Economic History Association and president of the Western Economic Association International. He was a Guggenheim Fellow from 1975 to 1976.

In 1994, David was elected a senior research fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford and for the next decade split his time between Oxford and Stanford. When he officially retired from Stanford in 2002, he was appointed the first senior fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, where he remained active until 2008.

https://humsci.stanford.edu/feature/paul-david-who-made-stanford-leading-center-economic-history-dies-87

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Preferred Citation

[identification of item] Paul A. David papers (SC1610). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Administrative transfer, 2022.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Economics -- United States -- Studying and Teaching.

Papers Accession ARCH-2022-080

Box 1, Folder 1

Fertility Project: Contraceptive Technology and Family Limiting Behavior - Toward a Quantitative History of Contraceptive Practices in America, 1850-1920 1976 May

Box 1, Folder 2

Fertility Project: Contraceptive Technology and Fertility Control in Victorian America: From Facts to Theories 1976 June

Box 1, Folder 3

Fertility Project: Economic Analysis of the Demographic Transition in the United States 1977 November

Box 1, Folder 4

Fertility Project: The Effectiveness of 19th Century Contraceptive Practices 1978 November

Box 1, Folder 5

Fertility Project: The Role of Experience and Adaptive behavior in Contraceptive Efficiency 1978 December

Box 1, Folder 6

Fertility Project: How Did They Do It? 1979 July

Box 1, Folder 7

Fertility Project: The Economics of Marital Dissolution, the Black Family, and the Legacy of Slavery 1979 October

Box 1, Folder 8

Fertility Project: Evidence and Measures of Fertility Control from Cohort Parity Distribution Analysis 1979 March

Box 1, Folder 9

Fertility Project: Contraceptive Technology and Family Limiting Behavior: First Summary Progress Report 1979 April

Box 1, Folder 10

Fertility Project: Estimating the Extent of Fertility Control from Parameters of a Multinomial Model for the Distribution of Parities 1980 January

Box 1, Folder 11

Fertility Project: Figures for Reflections of a Silent Revolution: Quantitative Measures of the Diffusion of Fertility Control in the United States from 1840 to 1930 1980 May

Box 1, Folder 12

Fertility Project: Another 'Revolution Au Village': Patterns of Fertility Control in 40 Villages of Rural France 1980 November

Box 1, Folder 13

Fertility Project: Contraception, Infant Mortality, and Breastfeeding in Rural France, 1740-1830 1981 October

Box 1, Folder 14

Fertility Project: Marital Fertility and Family Limitation in 19th Century Rural America 1981 October

Box 1, Folder 15

Fertility Project: Fertility Regulation in "Natural Fertility" Populations 1983 April

Box 1, Folder 16

Fertility Project: Contraception Through Stochastic Learning Behavior 1976 January

Box 1, Folder 17

Fertility Project: Economic Opportunities, Fertility, and Women's Status 1983 August

Box 1, Folder 18

Fertility Project: Quantitative History of Modern Fertility Control 1983 October

Box 1, Folder 19

Fertility Project: Bargains, Bequests, and Births 1984 June

Box 1, Folder 20

Fertility Project: Stopping Versus Spacing in the Past 1984 April

Box 1, Folder 21

Fertility Project: Rational Strategies of Birth-Spacing and Fertility Regulation in Rural France During the Ancien Regime 1985 March

Box 1, Folder 22

Fertility Project: Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855-1915 1985 May

Box 1, Folder 23

Fertility Project: The Quantitative History of Family Limitation 1985 July

Box 1, Folder 24

Fertility Project: Statistical Estimates of the Extent of Fertility Control From Analysis of Cohort Parity Distributions 1986 August

Box 1, Folder 25

Fertility Project: Old-Age Security Motives, Labor Markets, and Farm Family Fertility in Antebellum America 1985 December

Box 1, Folder 26

Fertility Project: Is Altruism Towards Children Causing Non-Replacement Fertility 1986 September

Box 1, Folder 27

Fertility Project: A Sequential Econometric Model of Birth-Spacing Behavior Among Rural French Villages, 1749-1789 1986 January

Box 1, Folder 28

Fertility Project: Below Replacement Fertility in 19th Century America 1986 September

Box 1, Folder 29

Fertility Project: The Transition to Marital Fertility Control in Ireland Before 1911: Results from Application of Cohort Parity Analysis 1987

Box 1, Folder 30

Fertility Project: On Stopping Vs. Spacing and Historical Fertility Transitions 1987 October

Box 1, Folder 31

Fertility Project: The Relationship of the CPA Bounds on the Extent of Marital Fertility Control to Other Estimators 1989 August

Box 1, Folder 32

Fertility Project: Culture, Contagion, and Calculation 1989 November

Box 1, Folder 33

Fertility Project: Intergenerational Relations, Household Economy, and Fertility Behavior 1991 October

Box 1, Folder 34

Fertility Project: Antecedents of Extinction

Box 1, Folder 35

Fertility Project: New Estimates of Fertility and Fertility Control for White Women in the US, 1800-1920

Box 1, Folder 36

Correspondence: Janet Brodie, re: diary 1976

Box 1, Folder 37

Correspondence: Richard Johnson re: Sampling 1900 Census 1978-1979

Box 1, Folder 38

Kinsey Questions 1975-1978

Box 1, Folder 39

Fertility Project: notes about France

Box 2, Folder 1

Family Records

Box 2, Folder 2

Family Records

Box 2, Folder 3

Family Records

Box 2, Folder 4

Utah Family Records 1977

Box 2, Folder 5

Marital Dissolution Notes and Data

Box 2, Folder 6

Kensington Study Data and Notes

Box 2, Folder 7

Kensington Study Data

Box 2, Folder 8

Kensington Study Data

Box 2, Folder 9

Masler Tables for WP #19

Box 2, Folder 10

WP #19 Data and Figures

Box 2, Folder 11

Correspondence: Infant Feeding Study 1980

Box 2, Folder 12

Studies in the Quantitative History of Fertility Control Final Report 1984

Box 2, Folder 13

Women Count Conference 1979

Box 2, Folder 14

Correspondence: Mosher Study 1980

Box 2, Folder 15

Making Use of Treacherous Advice 1996 May

Box 2, Folder 16

Notes on a Bayesian Rhythm Method: Contraception Through Stochastic Learning

Box 2, Folder 17

WP #23 Figures and Tables

Box 2, Folder 18

Correspondence re: PAA with Jeffrey Evans 1983

Box 2, Folder 19

Technical Notes for CPA Paper

Box 2, Folder 20

Modeling Birth Intervals

Box 2, Folder 21

WP #23 Notes and Correspondence 1987

Box 2, Folder 22

Notepad

Box 2, Folder 23

Basic CPA Model

Box 2, Folder 24

Data: Hutterite and Kunz-Smith 1978-1982

Box 2, Folder 25

Data: Mormon 1979

Box 2, Folder 26

Data: Easterlin

Box 2, Folder 27

Data: New Mortality Estimates

Box 2, Folder 28

Lecture: Effectiveness of 19th Century Contraceptive Practices--Delivered to British Population Society 1978

Box 2, Folder 29

Lecture: Contraceptive Technology, Family Limitation, and Victorian Sexual Ideology and Functionalism of Victorian Sexual Ideology 1977

Box 2, Folder 30

CPA Notes on Findings 1983

Box 2, Folder 31

Kenneth Wachter Memos 1981-1984

Box 2, Folder 32

Data: INED Codebooks 1984

Box 2, Folder 33

Data: NIH, Rural France Maps 1983

Box 2, Folder 34

Data: FAMDAT Codebook

Box 2, Folder 35

Notes on Contraception Through Stochastic Learning

Box 2, Folder 36

Fertility Project: The Role of Experience and Adaptive Behavior in Contraceptive Efficiency 1975 December

Box 2, Folder 37

Notes for "How Did They Do It" 1976

Box 2, Folder 38

Society in Numbers

Box 3, Folder 1

Warren Sanderson's Manuscript, "Hold for More" 1983

Box 3, Folder 2

Comments on: "Cohort Parity Analysis: Statistical Estimates of the Extent of Fertility Control"

Box 3, Folder 3

Press Clippings/Publications

Box 3, Folder 4

Data: Mosher Survey, Codebook

Box 3, Folder 5

Data: French Spacing Studies, 1986

Box 3, Folder 6

Data: Anderton Adventure, 1988

Box 3, Folder 7

Fertility Control Project Correspondence 1975-1982

Box 3, Folder 8

Correspondence with Journals 1976-1980

Box 3, Folder 9

Correspondence re: reprints 1983-1990

Box 3, Folder 10

Correspondence with Warren Sanderson 1980

Box 3, Folder 11

Correspondence re: data acquisition 1978-1980

Box 3, Folder 12

Notes on David-Sanderson Papers

Box 3, Folder 13

Abortion and Miscarriage Materials and Notes

Box 3, Folder 14

Menstrual Cycle Research 1978

Box 3, Folder 15

SPHFC Conference Notes 1983

Box 3, Folder 16

Notes on Estimating the Probability of Inclusion in a Sample Based on Genealogical Data 1980

Box 3, Folder 17

Notes on a Method of Correcting Genealogical Records for the Underrecording of Births 1980

Box 3, Folder 18

Further Notes on a Method of Correcting Genealogical Records for the Underreporting of Births 1980

Box 3, Folder 19

Unidentified paper, part 1: Some Macrodemographic Indications of Effective Fertility Controls

Box 3, Folder 20

Unidentified paper, part 2

Box 3, Folder 21

Unidentified paper, part 3

Box 3, Folder 22

Unidentified paper, part 4 1978

Box 3, Folder 23

Unidentified paper, part 5

Box 3, Folder 24

Unidentified paper, part 7

Box 3, Folder 25

Unidentified paper, part 8

Box 3, Folder 26

Unidentified paper, part 9

Box 3, Folder 27

Appendix: Mosher Questionnaire

Box 3, Folder 28

WP #17 Figures 1987

Box 3, Folder 29

WP #26 Figures 1991

Box 3, Folder 30

Reflections of a Silent Revolution figures 1980

Box 3, Folder 31

Fertility Regulation figures

Box 3, Folder 32

References and Appendices for "Bequests, Bargains, and Births"

Box 3, Folder 33

WP #6 Tables

Box 3, Folder 34

Population Index Paper Tables 1990

Box 3, Folder 35

Supplementary Grant Proposal, Social Stratification 1977-1981

Box 3, Folder 36

Supplementary Grant Proposal, Intermediate Contraceptive Technology 1977

Box 3, Folder 37

Grant Proposal: Contraceptive Technology 1976

Box 3, Folder 38

Summary Progress Report: Contraceptive Technology 1979 April

Box 3, Folder 39

Summary Progress Report: Contraceptive Technology 1980 April

Box 3, Folder 40

Summary Progress Report: Quantitative History of Modern Fertility Control 1983 April

Box 3, Folder 41

Final Report: The Quantitative History of Family Limitation 1985 July

Box 3, Folder 42

Research Progress Memo: Fertility Regulation in "Natural Fertility" Populations 1983 March

Box 3, Folder 43

Research Progress Memo: Some Surprisingly Simple Properties of the Coale-Trussell Fertility Parameterization 1980

Box 3, Folder 44

Research Progress Memo: Masuring Marital Fertility Control 1980

Box 3, Folder 45

Research Progress Memo: On Parity Effects in Birth-Spacing Models 1984 November

Box 3, Folder 46

Research Progress Memo: Model Noncontroller Parity Distributions for 1911 Ireland 1985 August

Box 3, Folder 47

Research Progress Memo: On the Decomposition of "Averters" into "Terminators" and "Pure Spacers" 1983 July

Box 3, Folder 48

Research Progress Memo: Model Noncontroller Parity Distributions 1984 March

Box 3, Folder 49

Supplementary Grant Proposal: New Interpretations 1977 February

Box 3, Folder 50

Research Progress Memo: Indirect Evidences of Marital Fertility Control 1979 January

Box 3, Folder 51

Original Proposal: Contraceptive Technology 1976 May

Box 4, Folder 1

Untitled paper, part 3.2

Box 4, Folder 2

Untitled paper, part 4

Box 4, Folder 3

Untitled paper, part 5

Box 4, Folder 4

Untitled paper, part 6

Box 4, Folder 5

Untitled paper, part 10

Box 4, Folder 6

Untitled paper, notes on part 1

Box 4, Folder 7

Untitled paper, notes on part 2

Box 4, Folder 8

Untitled paper, notes on part 4

Box 4, Folder 9

Indian Fertility Project: Correspondence 1992

Box 4, Folder 10

NSF Proposal: Economic Behavior and the Beginnings of Modern Family Limitation 1982

Box 4, Folder 11

NIH Proposal: Contraceptive Technology 1976 May

Box 4, Folder 12

Summer Grant 1991

Box 4, Folder 13

Supplementary Grant Proposal, Summary 1977

Box 4, Folder 14

Supplementary Grant Proposal, Modifications and Extensions 1977

Box 4, Folder 15

Supplementary Grant Proposal: Possibilites of Effective Contraceptive Control with Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods 1977

Box 4, Folder 16

Supplementary Grant Proposal: Discussion of Budget Request

Box 4, Folder 17

Proposal to TEG 1992

Box 4, Folder 18

Annual Research Report 1983

Box 4, Folder 19

NIH Correspondence

Box 4, Folder 20

Proposal Letters

Box 4, Folder 21

Grant Proposal Details and Correspondence 1977

Box 4, Folder 22

Grant Proposal Details and Correspondence 1978

Box 4, Folder 23

Group on Life Cycle and Aging Seminar Notes, Mosher Notes 1978

Box 4, Folder 24

Lecture and Seminar Notes

Box 4, Folder 25

Fertility Notes 1977

Box 4, Folder 26

Population Group Seminar 1977

Box 4, Folder 27

Notes: Possibilities of Effective Fertility Control with Rudimentary Methods

Box 4, Folder 28

Summary of "Toward a Quantitative History of Family Limitation in 19th Century America"

Box 4, Folder 29

Correspondence about Fertility Paper 1977

Box 4, Folder 30

Journal about Fertility Project

Box 5, Folder 1

Fertility data

Box 5, Folder 2

Mosher Questionnaire Appendices

Box 5, Folder 3

Mosher Manual

Box 5, Folder 4

Mormon Parent Child Data

Box 6, Folder 1

Mosher Questionnaire

Box 6, Folder 2

Mosher Questionnaire

Box 6, Folder 3

Mosher Questionnaire

Box 6, Folder 4

Mosher Questionnaire

Box 6, Folder 5

Fertility data

Box 6, Folder 6

Mosher tables

Box 6, Folder 7

Mosher partial tabulations

Box 6, Folder 8

Bibliographical Information on Mosher, Dickinson

Box 6, Folder 9

Evaluating Effectiveness of Strategies

Box 6, Folder 10

Terman Sample

Box 6, Folder 11

Kinsey, Mosher data

Box 6, Folder 12

Mosher Survey Questions

Box 6, Folder 13

Mosher Survey Study: Plans for Work

Box 6, Folder 14

Mosher Survey Study

Box 6, Folder 15

Learning Paper Worksheets

Box 7, Folder 1

MORPRTY data

Box 7, Folder 2

MORCHCK data

Box 7, Folder 3

Heuser Kinsey Listings

Box 7, Folder 4

Mosher Dataset Related Programs 1980

Box 7, Folder 5

Mortality data

Box 7, Folder 6

Genealogical files

Box 7, Folder 7

Mormon Data Set

Box 8, Folder 1

Study of the Physiology and Hygiene of Marriage With Some Consideration of the Birth Rate, Clelia Mosher

Box 8, Folder 2

Kinsey data

Box 8, Folder 3

1900 Public Use Sample

Box 8, Folder 4

Explanation of Mormon Tapes

Box 8, Folder 5

POPREP data

Box 8, Folder 6

Poprep listing

Box 9, Folder 1

University Materials: Economic Theory Notes

Box 9, Folder 2

University Materials: Math Notes and Exams

Box 9, Folder 3

University Materials: Math Notes and Exams

Box 9, Folder 4

University Materials: Math Notes

Box 9, Folder 5

University Materials: Economic History Notes

Box 9, Folder 6

University Materials: American History Notes

Box 9, Folder 7

University Materials: American History Notes

Box 9, Folder 8

University Materials: History Notes and Exams

Box 9, Folder 9

University Materials: History Notes and Exams

Box 9, Folder 10

University Materials: Thesis Chapters

Box 9, Folder 11

University Materials: History Notes

Box 10, Folder 1

University Materials: Social Science Notes and Exams

Box 10, Folder 2

University Materials: History Notes and Exams

Box 10, Folder 3

University Materials: History Notes and Exams

Box 10, Folder 4