NIA Workshops on Cross-National Issues in Aging
Fall 1996
441 Eggers Hall, Thursdays; 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
(unless otherwise indicated)
These workshops are an activity of the Center for Demography and Economics of Aging, which is funded by National Institute on Aging Grant No. P20-AG12837.
- September 5. Peter Saunders (University of New South Wales). "Income Distribution, Poverty and Health in Australia."
- September 12. Richard Ippolito (Pension Guaranty Corporation). "Low Discounters as High Quality Workers."
- September 19. J.S. Butler (Syracuse University). "Labor Supply and Wages among Nuclear and Extended Households: The Surinamese Experiment."
- September 26. Douglas Wolf (Syracuse University). "Time? Money? Both? The Allocation of Resources to Elderly Parents."
- October 3. Douglas Ewbank (University of Pennsylvania). "Modeling Observable and Unobservable Heterogeneity in the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease and Ischemic Heart Disease."
- October 17. James Reschovsky (Center for Studying Health System Change). "The Roles of Medicaid and Economic Factors in the Demand for Nursing Home Care."
- October 31. John Phillips (Syracuse University). "The Concentration of Transferable Asset Holdings by the Oldest Old."
- November7. Jennifer Hunt (Yale University). "Wage Mobility in the United States."
- November 14. Emanuel Jiminez (World Bank). "Coping with Apartheid: Interhousehold Transfers and the Elderly in South Africa."
- November 21. Jutta Joesch (University of Washington). "The Demand for Child Care: A Double-Hurdle Approach."
- November 28. No Seminar - Thanksgiving.
- December 5. Donald Kenkel (Cornell University). "Are Alcoholics in Bad Jobs?"
