VID Colloquium
Age Groups and the Measure of Population Aging
Hippolyte d'Albis, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne & Paris School of Economics
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
This presentation proposes the use of optimal grouping methods for determining the various age groups within a population. The cutoff ages for these groups, such as the age from wich an individual is considered to be an older person, are then endogenous variables that depend on the entire population age distribution at any given moment. This method is applied to the age distributions of some industrialized countries, for which cutoff ages as well as the main indicators of aging are calculated over the last 50 years.
About the presenter
Hippolyte d’Albis is a Professor of Economics at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Paris School of Economics, a junior fellow of the Institut universitaire de France and an associate researcher at the French National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED). He completed his Ph.D. studies in Economics at the University of Paris I in December 2003, and was then recruited as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toulouse I. In From September 2006 to August 2011, he served as Full Professor at the University of Montpellier III while remaining research fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics. He received in 2011 a starting grant from the European Research Council and, since September 2012, he is leading the French National Transfers Accounts team. Hippolyte d'Albis is specialized in economic dynamics and population economics and studies the economic consequences of demographic aging. Most notably, his contributions analyze the consequences of longevity increases on saving and retirement decisions over the life-cycle and on macroeconomic variables