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Taipei, 6-8 December 2001
Organized by the IUSSP research committee on ’Age structure and Public policy’ and the Institute of Economics of Academia Sinica.
Programme
Thursday 6 December
09.00 - 09.30: Arrival and registration
09.30 - 09.45: Opening addresses
09.45 - 10.00: Coffee break
10.00-12.15
SESSION 1: CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY: THE Public/PRIVATE DIMENSIONS
1. JANET GORNICK (Baruch College, City u. New York)
Social expenditures on children and the elderly 1980-1997: shifting allocation and changing needs
2. NANCY FOLBRE (u. Mass.)
The production of people by means of people: the distribution of the costs of children
3. MARTIN KOHLI (Free univ. of Berlin)
Private and Public transfers between generations: attitudes and behavior
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 15.30
SESSION 2: INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS, FERTILITY DECISIONS, AND THE ROLE OF TIME
4. CYRuS CHu (Sinica, Taiwan)
Parental bequest and children feedbacks in a Chinese society
5. MARC FELDMAN (u. Stanford)
Son preference: cultural antecedents and demographic consequences
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45
6. SuMON KuMAR BHAuMIK (London Business School)
Intergenerational transfers: the ignored role of time
16.45 - 17.30: Discussion led by Anne H. Gauthier
Friday 7 December
09.00 - 10.30
SESSION 3: EDuCATION, HEALTH, AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS
7. CEN METE (Yale u.) and PAuL SCHuLTZ
Health and labor force participation of the elderly in Taiwan
8. MARK HAYWARD (Penn State u.), EILEEN M. CRIMMINS, ZHENMEI ZHANG
Consequences of educational changes for the burden of chronic health problems in the population
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30
9. BETH SOLDO (u. Penn.)
Persistence of transfer behaviors in mid- and late-life: panel evidence from the American Health and Retirement Study
10. I-FEN LIN (Bowling Green State u.), NOREEN GOLDMAN, MAXINE WEINSTEINM and Yu-HSuAN LIN
Stability and change in patterns of intergenerational transfers in Taiwan
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 15.30
SESSION 4: INTERGENERATIONAL SuPPORT AND TRANSFERS IN DEVELOPING COuNTRIES
11. JuDY TREAS (u. California-Irvine)
Maternal co-residence and contact: evidence from cross-national surveys
12. ALEX WEINREB (u. Chicago) and JERE R. BEHRMAN
Substitution and substitutability: the effects of kin availability on intergenerational transfers in Malawi
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45
13. PHILIP KREAGER (u. Oxford) and ELISABETH SCHROEDER-BuTTERFILL
Networks of elderly support in three Indonesian communities
16.45 - 17.30: Discussion led by Cyrus Chu
Saturday 8 December
09.00 - 10.30
SESSION 5: FINANCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC MACRO-LEVEL PERSPECTIVES
14. JuHA ALHO (univ. of Joensuu, Finland) and REIJO VANNE
On Predictive Distributions of Public Net Liabilities
15. DIANE MACuNOVICH (Columbia u.)
Changing Age Structure and the Incidence of Financial Crises
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30
16. SHENG-CHENG Hu (Academia Sinica, and Taiwan Government)
Age Structure and Aggregate Savings-The Case of Taiwan
17. ROBERT SCHOEN (Penn State u.) and STEFAN H. JONSSON
Intergenerational Transfer Implications of Birth Fluctuations
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 14.45: Discussion led by Shripad Tuljapurkar
14.45 - 15.15
SESSION 6: POLICY IMPLICATIONS
18. IAN POOL (u. Waikato, NZ)
IUSSP Policy paper
15.15 - 15.30: Closing addresses