Parfait Eloundou - Cornell University
Population Change and Economic Inequality: Theory and Evidence on Two Proximate Influences
Date: 03/15/2012 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library
Organizer: Elizabeth Frankenberg
Meeting Schedule: Login or email the organizer to schedule a meeting.
All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
9:00am - Brian Pence and Andrew Goodall
9:30am - OPEN
10:00am - OPEN
10:30am - OPEN
11:00am - Elizabeth Frankenberg
11:30am - Duncan Thomas
12:00pm - Lunch with Giovanna Merli
1:00pm - Meetings with DuPRI students (Jing LI)
2:00pm - Romeo Gansey
2:30pm - Sowmya Rajan
3:00pm - Amar Hamoudi
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
Additional Comments: Abstract: Past macro-level research linking population and economic development has emphasized national averages. Studies in this vein focus on national fertility rates and age structure (on the population side) and average per capita incomes or national school enrollments for instance (on the economic side). As a complement to this literature, our research draws attention to population influences on economic differentiation, both within and between countries. It is theoretically grounded in variants of the dilution argument and it employs decomposition methods to evaluate how (1) recent changes in national age structure contributed to global between-country inequality and (2) how differential fertility change is exacerbating economic inequality within African countries.