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Conference China and the West 1950 - 2050: Economic Growth, Demographic Transition and Pensions November 21, 2011 Speakers Mahias Doepke (Northwestern U.) Moshe Hazan (Hebrew U.) Dirk Krueger (U. Pennsylvania) Jiehua Lu (Peking U.) Nancy Qian (U. Yale) Ebrahim Rahbari (Citigroup) Kjetil Storesleen (Fed. Reserve Bank) Michèle Tertilt (U. Mannheim) Hans-Joachim Voth (U. Pompeu Fabra) David Weil (Brown U.) Organized by: Center for Institutions, Policy and Culture in the Development Process (Director Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Ziliboi) with the support of the European Research Council and NCCR- Finrisk Time: 7:50 – 18:00 Venue: KOL-G-217, Rämistrasse 71, University of Zurich Registration (no fees): [email protected] Further Information: www.econ.uzh.ch Department of Economics

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ConferenceChina and the West 1950 - 2050:Economic Growth, Demographic Transition and PensionsNovember 21, 2011

SpeakersMatthias Doepke (Northwestern U.) Moshe Hazan (Hebrew U.)Dirk Krueger (U. Pennsylvania) Jiehua Lu (Peking U.)Nancy Qian (U. Yale) Ebrahim Rahbari (Citigroup)Kjetil Storesletten (Fed. Reserve Bank) Michèle Tertilt (U. Mannheim)Hans-Joachim Voth (U. Pompeu Fabra) David Weil (Brown U.)

Organized by: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

Time: 7:50 – 18:00Venue: KOL-G-217, Rämistrasse 71, University of ZurichRegistration (no fees): [email protected]

Further Information: www.econ.uzh.ch

Department of Economics

 

Department of Economics Centre for Institutions, Policy and Culture in the Development Process 

Schedule 

Time   Speaker  Topic of Speech 

LONG‐RUN GROWTH AND DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS: GLOBAL TRENDS 

07:50‐08:15    Coffee and Registration

08:15‐08:30  Fabrizio Zilibotti (U. of Zurich) Welcome Speech

08:30‐09:15  David Weil (Brown U.)  The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth (with Quamrul Ashraf and Joshua Wilde) 

09:15‐10:00  Ebrahim Rahbari (Citigroup)  Global Growth Generators and the Role of Demography, (with Willem Buiter) 

  Chair Christoph Winter (U. of Zurich)

10:00‐10:15    Coffee Break 

CHINA: DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS, SAVINGS AND PENSIONS 

10:15‐11:00  Jiehua Lu (Peking U. and Center for 

Healthy Aging and Development Studies) 

Impact of Demographic Transition on Future Economic Growth: Chinaʹs Case Study 

11:00‐11:45  Kjetil Storesletten (Fed. Reserve Bank Minneapolis) 

Chinese Growth in the Face of a  Demographic Transition (with Zheng Song, Yikai Wang and Fabrizio Zilibotti) 

11:45‐12:30  Nancy Qian (U. of Yale)  The Effect of Fertility on Savings: Micro Evidence from Chinaʹs Family Planning Policies 

  Chair Michelle Rendall (U. of Zurich)

12:30‐13:45    Lunch Break 

FERTILITY, FEMALE EMPOWERMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 

13:45‐14:30  Hans‐Joachim Voth (U. Pompeu Fabra) How the West Invented Fertility Restrictions (with Nico Voigtländer) 

14:30‐15:15  Matthias Doepke (Northwestern U.) Fertility, Inequality and Growth 

15:15‐16:00  Michèle Tertilt (U. of Mannheim) Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development? (with Matthias Doepke) 

  Chair Filippo Brutti (U. of Zurich)

16:00‐16:30    Coffee Break 

THE WEST: DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS, LABOR SUPPLY AND THE GREAT RECESSION 

16:30‐17:15  Moshe Hazan (Hebrew U.)  The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis (with Matthias Doepke and Yishay Maoz) 

17:15‐18:00  Dirk Krueger (U. of Pennsylvania) Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession (with Andrew Glover, Jonathan Heathcote and José‐Victor Rios‐Rull) 

  Chair Fabrizio Zilibotti (U. of Zurich)

Room: KOL‐G‐217, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich

Short Bios  

Speaker  Biography 

David Weil   

Professor of Economics, Brown University. 

Ph.D.  Harvard University, 1990. 

Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and Co‐Director of the NBER project on the Causes 

of African Development Successes. 

 

Research Interests:  

Growth, fertility, demography, habit formation, health, social security.  

 

Selected Works: 

“The Dynamics of the Age Structure, Dependency, and Consumption.” Journal of Population 

Economics, forthcoming. (with Heinrich Hock). 

“Post‐1500 Population Flows and the Long‐Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality.” 

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(4), 2010. (with Louis Putterman). 

“When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?” NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2008. (with Quamrul 

Ashraf and Ashley Lester). 

Ebrahim Rahbari   

Economist at Citigroup (Global Economics team led by Chief Economist Willem Buiter), London. 

Ph.D. London Business School, London. 

 

Research Interests:  

Sovereign debt and banking, monetary policy, growth and trade.  

 

Selected Works: 

ʺGlobal Growth Generators: Moving Beyond Emerging Markets and BRIC.” Citi Economics, Global 

Economics View, 2011. (with Willem Buiter)  

ʺThe Debt of Nations.ʺ Citi Economics, Global Economics View, 2011. (with Willem Buiter, Juergen 

Michels and Giada Giani) 

ʺOptimal Reserve Composition in the Presence of Sudden Stops: The Euro and the Dollar as Safe 

Haven Currencies.ʺ Journal of International Money and Finance, 30, 1107‐1127, 2011.  (with Roland 

Beck) 

 

 

Speaker  Biography 

Jiehua Lu 

 

 

Professor at Department of Sociology and Deputy Director of Center for Healthy Aging and 

Development Studies, Peking University.  

Ph.D. Peking University, 1997. 

 

Research Interests:  

Economics of population, gerontology, interaction between population and environment. 

 

Selected Works: 

“Study on Desired Living Arrangements for the Elderly in Urban Areas: Case of Beijing, Shanghai, 

Tianjin, and Chongqing.” Population Journal, 1, 35 – 41, 2008. (with Lu Yuzhi and Bai Mingwen) 

“Rapid Population Aging in Mainland China: Challenges and Solutions.” Gansu Social Sciences, 6, 12 

– 16, 2007.  

“Analysis on Aging Labor Force and Its Impact on Socio‐economic Development in China.” 

Population Journal, 1, 7 – 12, 2006. (with Yang Daobing) 

Kjetil Storesletten  

Senior Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. 

Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 1995. 

Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Studies. 

 

Research Interests: 

Political economy, quantitative macroeconomics, financial economics. 

 

Selected Works: 

“The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States.”  

Journal of Political Economy, 118(4), 681‐722, 2010. (with Jonathan Heathcote and Giovanni Violante) 

“Growing Like China.” The American Economic Review, 101(1), 196‐233, 2011.  (with Zheng Song and 

Fabrizio Zilibotti) 

“The Survival of the Welfare State.” The American Economic Review, 93, 87‐112, 2003. (with John 

Hassler, Jose Rodriguez Mora and Fabrizio Zilibotti)

 

 

Speaker  Biography 

Nancy Qian  

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Yale.  

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. 

Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics. 

 

Research Interests:  

Development economics, labor economics, political economy. 

 

Selected Works: 

“The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from a Historical 

Experiment.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126, 593–650, 2011. (with Nathan Nunn) 

“The Columbian Exchange: a Historical Change in Food, Disease and Ideas.” Journal of Economic 

Perspectives, 24(2), 2010. (with Nathan Nunn) 

“Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex‐Specific Income on Sex 

Imbalance.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(3), 2008.

Hans‐Joachim Voth  

Professor of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 

Ph.D. Oxford University, 1996. 

Associate Editor of The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Editor of the European Review of 

Economic History.  

 

Research Interest:  

Demographic factors, growth and financial development, asset market volatility, great depression 

and German interwar economy. 

 

Selected Works: 

“Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, not Love.” The American Economic 

Review, 99(2), 248‐54, 2009. (with Nico Voigtländer) 

ʺWhy England? Demographic factors, structural change and physical capital accumulation during 

the Industrial Revolution.ʺ Journal of Economic Growth, 11(4), 319‐361, 2006. (with Nico Voigtländer)

ʺLiving Standards During the Industrial Revolution: An Economistʹs Guide.ʺ The American Economic 

Review, 93(2), 221‐226, 2003.  

 

 

Speaker  Biography 

Matthias Doepke 

 

 

Associate Professor, Northwestern University. 

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2000. 

Editor of Review of Economic Dynamics. 

 

Research Interests:  

Innovation, Productivity, Labor Economics, Public Policy and Competition Policy. 

 

Selected Works: 

“Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child‐Labor Problem?” 

Journal of Economic Growth, 15(1), 1‐31, 2010. (with Fabrizio Zilibotti) 

“Women’s Liberation: What’s in it for Men?” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(4), 1541‐1591, 

2009. (with Michèle Tertilt) 

“Inequality and Growth: Why Differential Fertility Matters.” The American Economic Review, 93(4), 

1091‐1113, 2003. (with David de la Croix) 

Michèle Tertilt  

Professor of Economics at University of Mannheim. 

Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2003. 

Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics, the Review of Economic Studies and the 

Journal of the European Economic Association. 

 

Research Interests:  

Macroeconomics, demography and development. 

 

Selected Works: 

“Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility‐Income Relationship?” in Shoven, J. 

(ed.) “Demography and the Economy.” University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. (with Larry E. Jones 

and Alice Schoonbroodt) 

“Women’s Liberation: What’s in it for Men?” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(4), 1541‐1591, 

2009. (with Matthias Doepke) 

“Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth.”Econometrica, July 2007, 75 (4), 1039‐1071. (with 

Mikhail Golosov and Larry Jones) 

 

 

Speaker  Biography 

Moshe Hazan  

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania. 

Ph.D. Hebrew University, 2002. 

Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. 

  

Research Interests:  

Growth and demography. 

 

Selected Works: 

ʺLongevity and Lifetime Labor Supply: Evidence and Implications.ʺ Econometrica, 77, pp. 1829–1863, 

2009. 

ʺDoes Longevity Cause Growth? A Theoretical Critique.ʺ Journal of Economic Growth, 11, 363–376, 

2006. (with Hosny Zoabi)  

ʺWomenʹs Labor Force Participation and the Dynamics of Tradition.ʺ Economics Letters, 75(2), 193–

198, 2002. (with Yishay D. Maoz) 

Dirk Krueger  

Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 

Ph.D.  University of Minnesota, 1999. 

Editor of the American Economic Review. 

 

Research Interests: 

Macroeconomics and public finance with emphasis on heterogeneous households. 

 

Selected Works: 

“On the Consequences of Demographic Change for Rates of Returns to Capital, and the Distribution 

of Wealth and Welfare.” Journal of Monetary Economics, 54(1), 49‐87, 2007.  (with Alexander Ludwig) 

“Pareto Improving Social Security Reform when Financial Markets are Incomplete!?” American 

Economic Review, 96(3), 737‐755, 2006. (with Felix Kubler) 

ʺDoes Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory.ʺ Review of 

Economic Studies, 73(1), 163‐193, 2006. (with Fabrizio Perri) 

     

Department of EconomicsCenter for Institutions, Policy and Culture in the Development Process

The research center “Institutions, Policy and Culture in the Development Process” (IPCDP) promotes theoretical and empirical research on growth and economic development. It addresses first-order policy-relevant issues while meeting the highest standards of scientific research. A core area is emerging markets, in particular the economic growth of China.

The IPCDP center is financed by the European Research Council (Advanced Grant). Its Principal Investigator, Prof. Fabrizio Zilibotti, is the Chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economy at the Department of Economics of the University of Zurich. He is the co-winner of 2009 edition of the Yrjo Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association. This is the most prestigious award in European economics, and was granted for the first time ever to a researcher at a Swiss University. He is the managing editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, an Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Growth, and China Economic Review, and the co-director of the NBER-SI program on Income Distribution and Macroeco-nomics. His research on growth, technical change, economic development and political economy is published in the most important academic journals in economics. His published research includes studies on China (“Growing Like China”, with Song and Storesletten, American Economic Review 2011) and India (“The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Delicensing the License Raj in India”, with Aghion, Burgess and Redding, American Economic Review 2008).