Conference: China and the West 1950-2050: Economic Growth, Demographic Transition and Pensions

University of Zurich, 21 November 2011.

Session 1: Long-Run Growth and Demography: Global Trends

David Weil (Brown University)
"The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth,"  with Quamrul Ashraf and Joshua Wilde.
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Ebrahim Rahbari (Citigroup)
"Global Growth Generators and the Role of Demography,"  with Willem Buiter.
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Session 2: Demography in China: Savings and Pensions

Jiehua Lu (Peking University and Center for Healthy Aging and Development Studies)
"Impacts of Demographic Transition on Future Economic Growth: China's Case Study."

Kjetil Storesletten (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
"Chinese Growth in the Face of a Demographic Transition,"  with Zheng Song, Yikai Wang and Fabrizio Zilibotti.
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Nancy Qian (University of Yale)
"The Effect of Fertility on Savings: Micro Evidence from China's Familiy Planning Policies."

Session 3: Fertility, Female Empowerment and Economic Development

Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"How the West Invented Fertility Restrictions,"  with Nico Voigtlaender.
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Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University)
"Fertility, Inequality and Growth."

Michèle Tertilt (University of Mannheim)
"Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?"  with Matthias Doepke.
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Session 4: The West: Demography, Labor Supply and the Great Recession

Moshe Hazan (Hebrew University)
"The Baby Boom and World War II: Macroeconomic Analysis,"  with Matthias Doepke and Yishay Maoz.
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Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)
"Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession,"  with Andrew Glover, Jonathan Heathcote and José-Victor Rios-Rull.
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Organized by
The center for Institutions, Policy and Culture in the Development Process (Director Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Zilibotti) with the support of the European Research Council and NCCR-Finrisk.

Venue
KOL-G-217, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich.

Time
Monday, 21 November 2011, 07:50 - 18:00.

Registration (no fees)
Please send an email to registration.ipcdp@econ.uzh.ch.

Further Information
The program and speakers' profiles are available below.