Lecture 2 Lecture 1 (24 Jan 2012) “Shoppers’ Delight” Discussion of Course content distribution of syllabus
Topic 1 History of Word Population
Basic demographic measures, age-pyramids, momentum
Lecture Notes: History of World Population
Topic 2 Demographic Transition
Demographic Transition: Theory and Measurement
Topic 3 Population Aging & Population Momentum
Topic 4 Malthus
Malthus Principles of Population
Topic 5 Population Debate
Topic 6: Population and Environment
Population and the Environment
Topic 7 Economics of the Family
Topic 8 Economics of Fertility
Review of Fertility Measures; Child as Normal Goods
Fertility Response to Child Mortality (Ben Porath and Olsen)
Wolpin’s (1997) Model of Fertility Responses to Infant/Child Mortality
Closing Thoughts on Fertility
Topic 9 Human Capital: Schooling and Migration/Immigration
Human Capital Models of Schultz, Becker and Mincer Human Capital Lecture 1
NPV and IRR Human Capital Lecture 2
General and Specific Human Capital Human Capital Lecture 3
Private and Social Costs Human Capital Lecture 4
Migration and Immigration: Lecture 1
Migration and Immigration: Lecture 2
Lecture Notes Health, Morbidity and Mortality
Mortality patterns, Epidemiological transition, basic mortality measures
Classification of diseases
SES and Mortality — McKweon
SES and Mortality — Fogel
SES and Mortality – Preston, Cutler et al.
Health and Mortality on SES – Smith
DP example and Closing Thoughts on Mortality