Sunday, December 18, 2005

Life Course Theory

Life Course Theory Link:

This is an interesting paper.

Fertility Trap Links

Lutz, Wolfgang, Maria Rita Testa, Vegard Skirbekk, 2006. The "Low Fertility Trap" Hypothesis, Paper presented at the Population Association of America (PAA) 2006 Annual Meeting, March 30 - April 1, Los Angeles, California

Lutz, Wolfgang, Maria Rita Testa, Vegard Skirbekk, 2005. The "Low Fertility Trap" Hypothesis power point presentation at the Postponement of Childbearing in Europe conference held at the Vienna Institute of Demography, 1-3 December 2005, Vienna, Austria


Health Longevity and Economic Growth Links

Bloom, David E, David Canning and Michael Moore, 2004. The Effect of Improvements in Health and Longevity on Optimal Retirement and Saving, NBER Working Paper 10919, Cambridge, Massachusetts


Bloom, David E, David Canning, and Dean T. Jamison, Health, Wealth, and Welfare, IMF publications, Finance & Development March 2004.

Uncertainty and Childbearing

Kumar Bhaumik, Simon and Jeffrey B. Nugent, 2002. Does Economic Uncertainty Have an Impact on Decisions to Bear Children? Evidence From Eastern Germany,University of Michigan Business School, William Davidson Working Paper Number 491, July 2002

Age Structure

Bloom, David E, and David Canning, 2001. Parsimonious Estimation of Age Structure Effects, University of Harvard, Mimeo

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Nasty Brutish and Short Online Bibliography

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Comment on "Inflammatory Exposure and Historical Changes in Human Life-Spans" Elisabetta Barbi and James W. Vaupel

Response to Comment on "Inflammatory Exposure and Historical Changes in Human Life-Spans" by Caleb E. Finch and Eileen M. Crimmins

Inflammation and Life-Span by Calogero Caruso, Giuseppina Candore, Giuseppina Colonna-Romano, Domenico Lio, Claudio Franceschi;, Anthony G. Payne;, Caleb E. Finch, and Eileen M. Crimmins

E-Letter responses to: Caleb E. Finch and Eileen M. Crimmins "Inflammatory Exposure and Historical Changes in Human Life-Spans"

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

The Second Stage and other references

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Sunday, August 07, 2005

About This Weblog

This weblog forms part of a personal project of mine. It should serve to bring together (online, in real time) back-up references and links to material which will accompany the chapter extracts which are to be found on my other blog which is associated with the issues of global-imbalances, demography, fertility and economic growth. Eventually (I hope) all these posts will form one continuous block which can be read sequentially. In the meantime everything here is a 'work in progress' with bits of me serving as 'gum and chickenwire' to hold together extracts from and links to the pertinent papers.

I hope the outcome will be readable and useful to someone, as well as serving as a data store for me.