27 November 2018
Broadening demographic horizons
In honor of World Population Program (POP) Director Wolfgang Lutz' 60th birthday, the Wittgenstein Centre and its three pillars, IIASA, the VID at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business, hosted a scientific conference entitled "Variations of the themes of Wolfgang Lutz" in December 2016.
Former collaborators, including Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi (Australian National University and University of Tehran), Philip Rees (University of Leeds), William Butz (Former President and CEO of the Population Reference Bureau), Joel E. Cohen (The Rockefeller University), and Frans Willekens (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute), discuss the impact of Lutz' work in the scientific field of demography, and current and long term colleagues from IIASA and the Wittgenstein Centre focussed on more recent scientific achievements. This volume is the result of that conference.
Guest editors of this special issue are POP scientists Alexia Prskawetz, Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov.
Publication details
Content
Introduction
Broadening demographic horizons: Demographic studies beyond age and gender
Alexia Prskawetz, Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov
Demographic Debate
Are there Principles of Demography? A search for Unifying (and Hegemonic) Themes
William Butz
Can Taylor's law of fluctuating scaling and its relatives help select more plausible multi-regional population forecasts?
Joel E. Cohen, Helge Brunborg, Meng Xu
Probabilistic demographic forecasts
Nico Keilman
Education and demography: A review
Philip Rees
Research Articles
Population Dynamics and Human Capital in Muslim Countries
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi and Gavin Jones
Survival Inequalities and Redistribution in the Italian Pension System
Graziella Caselli and Rosa Maria Lipsi
Does Education matter? – Economic Dependency Ratios by Education
Alexia Prskawetz and Bernhard Hammer
Multistate Projections of Australia’s Indigenous Population: Interacting Area Group and Identification Status Change
James Raymer, Yanlin Shi, James O'Donnell and Nicholas Biddle
The End of Population Ageing in the More Developed World
Warren Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov, Patrick Gerland
From intentions to births: Paths of realization in a multi-dimensional life course perspective
Maria Rita Testa and Francesco Rampazzo
Towards causal forecasting of international migration
Frans Willekens
Data & Trends
"Express Transitioning" as Special Case of the Demographic Transition
Marc Luy and Bernhard Köppen
Summary of "Demographiy and human capital scenarios for the 21st century"
Nicholas Gailey, Wolfgang Lutz
IIASA Projects
PUBLICATIONS
Kuil L, Carr G, Prskawetz A, Salinas JL, Viglione A, & Blöschl G (2019). Learning from the Ancient Maya: Exploring the Impact of Drought on Population Dynamics. Ecological Economics 157: 1-16. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.10.018.
Ediev D, Sanderson W, & Scherbov S (2019). The inverse relationship between life expectancy-induced changes in the old-age dependency ratio and the prospective old-age dependency ratio. Theoretical Population Biology 125: 1-10. DOI:10.1016/j.tpb.2018.10.001.
Pamar C & Saikia N (2018). Chronic Morbidity and Reported Disability among Older Persons from the India Human Development Survey. BMC Geriatrics 18 (299) DOI:10.1186/s12877-018-0979-9.
EVENTS
Variations of the themes of Wolfgang Lutz
05 Dec 2016 - 07 Dec 2016
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