Lectures
Human Capital Lecture 2Lecture 1 (24 Jan 2012) “Shoppers’ Delight” Discussion of Course content distribution of syllabus
Topic 0 History of Word Population
Lecture 2 (26 Jan 2012) Basic demographic measures, age-pyramids, momentum
Topic 0 Lecture Notes: History of Word Population
Topic 1 Health, Morbidity and Mortality
Topic 1 Lecture Notes Health, Morbidity and Mortality
Lecture 2 (26 Jan 2012) Mortality patterns, Epidemiological transition, basic mortality measures
Lecture 3 (31 Jan 2012) Classification of diseases
Lecture 4 (2 Feb 2012) — No Class.
Lecture 5 (7 Feb 2012) – SES and Mortality — McKweon
Lecture 6 (9 Feb 2012) – SES and Mortality — Fogel
- Introduction to Dynamic Programming
Lecture 7 (14 Feb 2012) – SES and Mortality – Preston, Cutler et al.
Lecture 8 (16 Feb 2012) – Health and Mortality on SES – Smith
Lecture 9 (21 Feb 2012) – DP example and Closing Thoughts on Mortality
Topic 2 Fertility
Lecture 10 (23 Feb 2012) – Review of Fertility Measures; Child as Normal Goods
Lecture 12 (28 Feb 2012) – Midterm Exam I
Lectures 13-15 (1 Mar 2012–13 Mar 2012) Lectures on Fertility
Lecture 16 (15 Mar 2012) Fertility Response to Child Mortality (Ben Porath and Olsen)
Lecture 17 (20 Mar 2012) Wolpin’s (1997) Model of Fertility Responses to Infant/Child Mortality
Lecture 18 (22 Mar 2012) Closing Thoughts on Fertility
Topic 3 Human Capital
Lecture 18 Human Capital Models of Schultz, Becker and Mincer Human Capital Lecture 1
Lecture 19 (27 Mar 2012) NPV and IRR Human Capital Lecture 2
Lecture 20 (29 Mar 2012) General and Specific Human Capital Human Capital Lecture 3
Lecture 21 (10 Apr 2012) Private and Social Costs Human Capital Lecture 4
Lecture 22 (12 Apr 2012) Mid-term Exam #2
Topic 4 Migration and Immigration
Lecture 23 (17 Apr 2012) Migration and Immigration: Lecture 1
Lecture 24 (19 Apr 2012) Migration and Immigration: Lecture 2
Topic 5 Demographic Transition
Lecture 25 (24 Apr 2012) Malthus Principles of Population
Lecture 26 ((26 Apr 2012) Demographic Transition: Theory and Measurement
Topic 6 Population Debate and Pop & Environment
Lecture 27 (1 May 2012) Tragedy of the Commons
Population and the Environment
Lecture 28 (3 May 2012) — No Class
Topic 7 Consequences of Population Aging
Lecture 29 (8 May 2012) Population Aging & Population Momentum
Lecture 30 (10 May 2012) Economics of Population Aging