1976, BSc in Industrial and Labour Relations, Cornell University; 1978, MA in Economics, Princeton University; 1981, PhD in Economics and Demography, Princeton University. Formerly: Assistant Professor of Economics, Carnegie-Mellon; Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard; Professor and Chairman of Economics, Columbia. Chairman, Dept of Global Health & Population, HSPH. Currently: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Faculty Research Associate, Labour Studies, Ageing, and Health Economics programmes, National Bureau of Economic Research. Research Fellow, IZA; Director, Harvard Program on Global Demography of Aging. Member, Board of Trustees: amFAR; PSI; JSI. Co-Editor, Journal of the Economics of Population Ageing.
We have entered what the United Nations (UN) has declared “The Decade of Healthy Ageing”. This declaration and the collective goals set for the next ten years respond to the growing globa...
The impact of COVID-19 has been substantial, tragic, and disruptive. It has also been revealing. The last year has been a visceral reminder that a healthy economy requires a healthy popul...
The population share of older adults in the US is expected to have increased roughly three-quarters over the same period. Some observers fear that this rapid demographic shift will cause ...
The COVID-19 pandemic that now dominates nearly every aspect of life across the globe is a harrowing reminder of the power of infectious disease. In addition to the devastating human toll...
As of 30 March, over 66,000 people had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in New York State. But how many are really infected? We don’t know.
生育率下降、寿命延长以及大批人口进入老年阶段，这些因素导致了人口老龄化——21世纪主要的全球人口发展趋势。本专栏介绍了一部新的Vox电子书，该书研究了人口老龄化带来的众多挑战和经济不确定性。总的来说，该书表明，虽然挑战艰巨，但并非不可克服。我们有充足的理由反驳“人口情况决定社会命运”的观点。
Population ageing, driven by declining fertility, increasing longevity, and the progression of large-sized cohorts to older ages, is the dominant global demographic trend of the 21st cent...
Problems of demography and health put the US is in a precarious position. Growing health spending on the ageing baby-boom cohort have driven public resources to the edge of a demographic ...
Future global employment needs are of central importance for policymakers. This column estimates that, based on growth in the working-age population, labour force participation rates, and...
