Demography and Economics

Questions on the material covered by the first part of the course

Lecture notes:

Period and Cohort Fertility Rates

Notes on papers by Schultz and Björklund

Notes on paper by Boyer

Notes on paper Donohue and Levitt

OH presentation of Hammarstedt and Palme (2004)

Background to immigration.

Mortality and income.

Mortality and income part 2.

Papers - Fertility

Björklund's paper

Figures to Björklund's paper

Schultz's paper

Milligan's paper

Papers - Intergenerational Mobility

Becker and Tomes' paper

Solon's paper

Hammarstedt, Mats and Mårten Palme, "Intergenerational Mobility, Human Capital Transmission and the Economic Position of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden"

Papers - Migration

George Borjas's paper

P-A Edin, Robert LaLonde and Olof Åslund's paper

Jan Ekberg's paper

Mats Hammarstedt's paper

Lena Nekby's paper

Papers - Mortality

Smith's paper

Deaton's paper

Gertham and Johannesson's paper