Health and Population

Links to the virtual class: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/97172998467 Monday from 2pm to 5pm

Course Objectives

This course (18h, 6 sessions) aims to provide a global vision of the main issues addressed by population economics:

- how demographic variables such as fertility and mortality respond to economic incentives and affect the economic development of societies?

- what role can health and education policies play in the demographic transition?

- what are the new challenges of demographic transition in the face of environmental issues?

It will introduce students to the theoretical background in population economics in relation to empirical evidence. Sessions will include formal lectures, as well as interactive sessions during which students will present academic articles related to the course content.

Targeted competences

-To understand the economic causes and consequences of the demographic transition.

- To be able to expand economic reasoning to demographic phenomena.

- To use formal models to study long-run (demo-economic) dynamics.

Syllabus

1. Population and development: historical background and stylized facts -

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2. Fertility facts/ choices, and

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3. Mortality - Economics of aging

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4. Demographic transition and economic development

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5. Public policies: Health and Education policies

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6. Population and Environment: Access to the slides

• • • • Population-Pollution and Health

      • Population and sustainability