Workshop on “Optimal Fertility in Ageing Societies”

December 9-10, 2010

Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)

Wohllebengasse 12-14, 1040 Vienna

 

Thursday, December 9th

9.00-10.45      Session 1 (Chair: Wolfgang Lutz)

09.00-09.15 Opening more
09.15-10.00 Dierk Herzer, Holger Strulik, Sebastian Vollmer
The long run determinants of fertility: one century of demographic change 1900-1999 more
Discussant: Jesus Crespo Cuaresma
10.00-10.45        Thomas Baudin
The optimal trade-off between quality and quantity with uncertain child survival more
Discussant: Michael Kuhn
10.45-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-12.45    Session 2 (Chair: Wolfgang Lutz)

11.15-12.00    Paula Gobbi
A model of voluntary childlessness more
Discussant: Ross Guest more
12.00-12.45    Michael Kuhn and Stefan Wrzaczek
On optimal fertility and mortality in economies with age-structured population more
Discussant: Hippolyte d’Albis more
12.45-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.30    Session 3 (Chair: David Bloom)

14.00-14.45    Ron Lee and Andrew Mason
Low fertility and economic growth more
Discussant: Theresa Grafeneder-Weissteiner more
14.45-15.30    Holger Strulik, Klaus Prettner and Alexia Prskawetz
Declining population: R&D based growth in the post-modern era more
Discussant: Andreas Schäfer more
15.30-16.00 Coffee break

           


16.00-17.30    Session 4 (Chair: David Bloom)

16.00-16.45    Wolfgang Lutz and Erich Striessnig
Optimal fertility as implied by education weighted support ratios more
Discussant: Andrew Mason more
16.45-17.30    Thomas Lindh and Jovan Zamac
Can national transfer accounts be used for broad measures of human capital?
Discussant: Vegard Skirbekk more

19.00 Conference Dinner

   

Friday, December 10th

09.00-10.30    Session 5 (Chair: Alexia Prskawetz)

09.00-09.45 Andreas Schäfer
Population dynamics, pollution, and economic inequality
09.45-10.30      David de la Croix
The natalist bias of pollution control
Discussant: Miguel Sanchez-Romero more
10.30-11.00 Coffee break

 

11.00-12.30    Session 6 (Chair: Alexia Prskawetz)

11.00-11.45    Ross Guest
Global fertility, social time preference and the optimal carbon price
Discussant: Jovan Zamac
11.45-12.30    Hippolyte d'Albis, Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron
The optimal prevention of epidemics more
12.30-13.30 Lunch break

 

13.30-15.00    Session 7 (Chair: Thomas Lindh)

13.30-14.15   Joshua R. Goldstein and Miguel Sanchez-Romero
Fiscal externalities to childbearing in aging populations
Discussant: Paula Gobbi more
14.15-15.00    Carl Schmertmann
Immigrants’ ages, long-run dependency, and unfunded public pensions with below-replacement fertility
Discussant: Joshua R. Goldstein more
15.00-15.30 Coffee break

 

15.30-17.00    Session 8 (Chair: Thomas Lindh)

15.30-16.15    Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa and Rikiya Matsukura
Financial literacy, saving, and retirement decisions
Discussant: Inga Freund / Bernhard Hammer
16.15-17.00    Alicia Adsera
Fertility, education and religious practice in the world: a look at recent trends
Discussant: Bilal Barakat more

 

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