Journal Article Population: A Symposium: Introductory Notes Get access Harvey Leibenstein Harvey Leibenstein Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 89, Issue 2, May 1975, Pages 230–235, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884427 Published: 01 May 1975

I. Typical behavior versus critical marginal behavior, 2.—II. Development, occupational shifts, and status shifts, 4.—III. The interstatus-income ratio compression effect, 5.—IV. Status and other IMU goods, 7.—V. Intra-household distributions and commitment claim drift, 11.—VI. On the price inelasticity of status goods, 15.—VII. Interstatus total utility differentials and the utility cost of children, 18.—VIII. On the utility of children, 21.—IX. Combining utility and utility cost relations, 26.