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Population Economics 01:220:477:A1 Rutgers University, Professor Ira N. Gang, Email: gang at rutgers.edu Include 477 in the subject line Updated: 02 June 18:05 |
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| Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu (6/1 - 6/25) 10:00AM - 12:55PM Sakai/Meetings/Click on appropriate meeting |
Lecture
Schedule, Exam Dates, Readings, Problems, There is no warranty on the
dates, order or topics. Please read the Syllabus Webpage: No
Text, which includes How to Approach the Material in this Course. No
text or other purchases are required for this class. Everything is
online, on our SAKAI pages. Prerequisites: Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Econometrics |
| SAKAI | The course management software we
will be using is SAKAI. Please familiarize yoursef with it. All
readings and related materials are under Resources. Lectures will
be d vered via the SAKAI Meetings tab. Etc. All communications will be to your official Rutgers email. |
| Office Hours : | Please email gang at rutgers.edu with questions and to set up online appointments. Meetings will be in BBB (Big Blue Button, this is the Meetings tab on our Sakai page): Go to Sakai/Meetings/ and enter the appropriate meeting. |
| How Lectures will be delivered. | For details please see the BBB webpage on our SAKAI site under Resources > WebElements. Lectures will be given on the scheduled day and at the scheduled class time, unless otherwise indicated. That is we will be using the approach referred to as Synchronous Remote, via the Big BlueButton (BBB) which is built into SAKAI, our Course Management Software. BBB magically appears when you join a Meeting. Go to Sakai/Meetings/Class. The Meetings tab is in the left column of your SAKAI course home page. A list of upcoming meetings will be posted. Please join the meeting at the appropriate time.For tech help with Sakai, please visit https://it.rutgers.edu/help-support. |
| Graded Elements of Course | Although class time is the same
as during a regular semester, the compression of the schedule does not
allow for a full set of exams and calls for a variation in structure.
For this summer term the following are required and must be completed
on time. If the amount of work seeems rather minimal, it is because I want you to spend your
time learning the material and delving into parts that interest you. 1. Midterm Exam on PRB "Population: an Introdoction to Demography". Tuesday 08 June 10:00AM- 11:30 on Sakai. Short answer and multiple choice. 2. Exercise on population pyramid. Due Friday 11 June at noon via email (copy the email to yourself as a receipt). Suggestion: complete before midterm. 3. Final Exam, Thursday 24 June 10:00AM-1:00PM on Sakai. Up to 50 multiple choice type questions. |
| Important | I will not be posting the lecture slides. Nor do I do not record my lectures. I will be posting Reviews generally before the lectures and suggest you review them prior to the lectures and add to them duirng the lectures. The Reviews are designed to highlight the main points, and will offer a good picture when combined with your class notes and other material in Handouts. |
| Exercises, Exam Practice, Handouts, Readings & Related | Located in SAKAI->Resources, Handouts will be added as the course progresses. |
| Please
watch at appropriate points in material. All are short & under the
Media Gallery tab our Sakai page. They will give you
some vocabulary and conceptual background. |
PART ONE: POPULATION ECONOMICS OVERVIEW Introduction: Hans Rosling on global population growth (10 Minutes) Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes (5 Minutes) Mortality: Economics of Death (12 Minutes) HansRosling_2009_480 HIV (11 Minutes) Fertility: HansRosling_2007_4Best Stats you've Ever Seen (21 Minutes) Migration: Economics of Immigration, Crash Course (12 Minutes) Migrant Express (I have combined 7 separate short episodes into one, 44 Minutes) Data: India's Census History (14 Minutes) History of Census Timeline 2011 (mainly British, 7 Minutes) History of the Census and Census-Taking Around the World by Population Reference Bureau (3 minutes) PART TWO: TOPICS Female Labor Force Participation Stefania Albanesi |The Gender Unemployment Gap: Trend and Cycle (49 minutes) Rohini Pande | Women and Work in India (1 hour 15 minutes) Missing Women Siwan Anderson | 2019 Fisher Lecture - Missing Women, (54 minutes) Kaivan Munshi | South Asian Studies Annual Indu Bhatt Lecture: Missing Girls (1 hour 35 minutes) Migration David Card | Labor Market Impacts of Immigration (1 hour 14 minutes) Disease, Epidemics and Pandemics forthcoming EXTRA TOPICS Abortion and the Economics of Fertility (50 minutes) Demographic Transition and Development (1 hour 32 minutes) Food Security in Less Developed Countries (10 minutes) |
| PART ONE | POPULATION ECONOMICS OVERVIEW |
| Tuesday 01 June Class 1 |
Objectives: Introduction. The vocabulary. Readings: [01] Mark Mather, Linda A. Jacobsen, and Paola Scommegna, "Population: An Introduction to Demography," Population Bulletin 75, no. 1 (2021). a simple, straightforward introduction to the major concepts & measures used in population studies. You should study this article very carefully -- line by line. Also, see the "vocabulary" guide under Exercises. Review: Math Review http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/ |
| Tuesday 01 June Class 2 |
Objectives: Introduction. The vocabulary. Readings: [02-0] Alene Gelbard, Carl Haub, & Mary M. Kent, “World Population Beyond Six Billion,” Population Bulletin vol. 54, no. 1 (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, March 1999). Reference: [04] PRB's Population Handbook, 6th Edition (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, 2011) |
| Wednesday 02 June Class 3 |
Objectives: The Demographic Transition Readings: [05-1] Demographic Transition: An Historical Sociological Perspective [05-2] Timothy W. Guinnane, "The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists," Journal of Economic Literature, 2011; [50-3] Bloom; [50-5] Clements; [50-10] Thakoor [50-14] Young Continent |
| Wednesday 02June Class 4 |
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| Thursday 03 June Class 5 |
Objectives: Mortality & Malthus Readings: [06] David Cutler, Angus Deaton & Adriana Lleras-Muney. “The Determinants of Mortality.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer, 2006), pp. 97-120 [50-9] Looking Up |
| Thursday 03 June Class 6 |
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| Monday 07 June Class 7 |
Objectives: Fertility Readings: [07] Warren C. Robinson. “The Economic Theory of Fertility Over Three Decades.” Population Studies, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 63-74 [08] John Bongaarts. Demographic Consequences of Declining Fertility. Science 16 October 1998: Vol. 282. no. 5388, pp. 419 – 420. [50-12] Strange Case of Missing Baby [50-13] World Has Problem |
| Monday 07 June Class 8 |
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| Tuesday 08 June Class 9 |
10:00AM-11:30AM Midterm Exam on PRB "Population: an Introdoction to Demography". On Sakai. 30 multiple choice. See also PRB Population Introduction to Demography - -Vocabulary |
| Tuesday 08 June Class 10 |
11:50AM-12:55PM. No lecture or online class meeting. Use this time to view the videos in the Media Gallery under the above heading "PART ONE: POPULATION ECONOMICS OVERVIEW". (Suggestion: to help with your intuition, do this earlier if you have the opportunity). |
| Wednesday 09 June Class 11 |
Objectives: Migration Readings: [10] Some Short Notes on Migration, tutor2u [11] Does Germany Need More Migration?, HWWI Reference:[12] The Economics of Immigration: Theory & Policy by Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik van den Berg - 2009 |
| Wednesday 09 June Class 12 |
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| Thursday 10 June Class 13 |
Objectives: Using Data in Population Economics Readings: [13} History of US Census. [14] Mark Mather, Kerri L. Rivers, & Linda A. Jacobsen, “The American Community Survey,” Population Bulletin 60, no. 3 (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, 2005). [15] U.S. Census 2010 [50-7] Honey I Lost the Kids |
| Thursday 10 June Class 14 |
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| Friday 11 June Exercise Due at NooN via email to gang at rutgers.edu |
Exercise on population pyramid. See: Population Pyramid Exercise [02-1] InstructionsExcel - Population Pyramids [02-2] Population Pyramid Generator |
| PART TWO | TOPICS |
| Monday 14 June Class 15 |
Objectives: Female Labor Force Participation, Impact of Women's LFP, Changes in Woman's LFP in India Readings: [17] Saul D. Hoffman. “The changing impact of marriage & children on women’s labor force participation.” Monthly Labor Review. February 2009, Vol. 132, No. 2 [34] Elizabeth Brainerd, "Uncounted Costs of World War II: The Effect of Changing Sex Ratios on Marriage & Fertility of Russian Women," March 2008 [50-8] Kinoshita |
| Monday 14 June Class 16 |
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| Tuesday 15 June Class 17 |
Objectives: Missing Women, More Missing Women, Missing Girls Readings: [21] Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt. “The Search for 100 Million Missing Women: An economics detective story.” Slate. May 24, 2005. [22-0] Tina Rosenberg. “The Daughter Deficit.” Times Magazine, Published: August 19, 2009 [22-1] Bride trafficking fuelled by India's gender imbalance _ Anu Anand _ Global development _ The Guardian [22-2] child_sex_ratio in India [xxxx] 1.5 Million Missing Black Men The Methodology: 1.5 Million Missing Black Men |
| Tuesday 15 June Class 18 |
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| Wednesday 16 June Class 19 |
Objectives: Caste, Discrimination & Affirmative Action Readings: [32] Economic & Political Weekly June 17, 2006 |
| Wednesday 16 June Class 20 |
Objectives: Child Labor Readings: [30]Examine web page on child labor at International Labor Organization; explore links. Objectives: Human Trafficking Resources: [31-1] N Report on Human Trafficking in India |
| Thursday 17 June Class 21 + Class 22 |
Objectives: Distributional Impacts of Immigrants Readings: [25] Immigration & the Labor Market: Theory, Evidence, & Policy By Will Somerville & Madeleine Sumption; [50-6 ]Economics Migration Systems Objectives: Herds and Networks Readings: [26] Thomas Bauer, Ira N. Gang & Gil S. Epstein. What are Migration Networks? (revised version published as "Measuring ethnic linkages among migrants" in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 56-69) Objectives: Unauthorized Immigration Readings: [23] Jeffrey S. Passel & D’Vera Cohn. Trends in Unauthorized Immigration:Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, October 2008 Objectives: Immigrants & New Jersey Readings: [24] Ira N. Gang & Anne Morrison Piehl, Destination, New Jersey: How Immigrants Benefit the State Economy, Eagleton Institute, Rutgers University, December 2008 |
| Monday 21 June
Class 23 + Class 24 |
Objectives: Disease, Epidemics and Pandemics Readings: [18] Ian R.H. Rockett, “Population & Health: An Introduction to Epidemiology,” 2d ed., Population Bulletin, vol. 54, no. 4 (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, December 1999). [19] "Plague & Economics." Economist. December 23, 1999. [20] Elizabeth Brainerd, “The Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” (with Mark Siegler, California State University, Sacramento), CEPR Discussion Paper 3791, November 2003. |
| Tuesday 22 June Class 25 + Class 26 |
Objectives: Disease, Epidemics and Pandemics |
| Wednesday 23 June Class 27 + Class 28 |
Objectives: Disease, Epidemics and Pandemics |
| Thursday 24 June 10:00AM-1:00PM |
FINAL EXAM:
Comprehensive. It will cover the entire semester's work,
The exam will be submitted at 1:00 PM regardless of whether you have
answered all the questions. You can submit the exam earlier if you
like. In creating the questions I will refer to the Midterm Exam and
what it covered, the practice exams, the lectures, and any handouts I
have made available. |
| Additional Material if you are interested |
International
Migration Outlook 2016 Immigrants Not Taking US Jobs Young Women in Rural India Chase Big-City Jobs An economist’s view on migration & refugees Responding to crises: What can we do? What’s next? |
| Topics if Time Allows | Objectives: Refugees Readings: [50-1] When Migrants Spoil the Joke Objectives: Marriage & Divorce Readings: [33] Explore data available through US Census links on Marriage & Divorce Statistics Objectives: Empowering Women in Agriculture Watch: video on Ralitza Dimova's web page http://www.ralitzadimova.net/ Objectives: Health & Population Listen to: Real Costs of Gun Violence · Philip J. Cook, Duke University Readings:[35-0] Angus Deaton Global Patterns of Income & Health Objectives: Disease & Development Readings: [35-1] [35-2] [35-3] Objectives: Informal Economy Readings: [28] [29] Objectives: Economics of Abortion Video: Abortion and the Economics of Fertility Youtube Link |