WIC/ADRI Summer School: "Demography, Human Capital and Economic Growth"

WIC/ADRI Summer School: "Demography, Human Capital and Economic Growth"

From June 19^th  till June 23^rd  the Wittgenstein Centre together with the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) organized the first Asian Summer School in "Demography, Human Capital and Economic Growth", hosted by the University of Shanghai, China.

Leading international scholars from Asia and Europe gave lectures about the first and second demographic dividends and on the role of human capital as a determinant of economic development. The training had theoretical and applied parts, using Excel and the statistical software R, with seminars in which the participants had the opportunity to apply the learned techniques to their home-country data. The participants were doctoral students from 12 different countries (Brazil, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand), enrolled in renewed universities worldwide. Four junior researchers from WIC participated in the course: Marina Andrjevic, Thananon Buathong, Anna Dimitrova, Melissa C.B.S. Lima.

1)       June 19^th : Population and Human Capital, by Samir KC (ADRI, WIC)

-        Introducing Demographic Projection: Total Population, Population Dynamics, Components of Change, Sources of heterogeneity; Cohort Component Projection
-        Age and Sex Projections (applied)
-        Data: ADRI, National Statistics, United Nations, Wittgenstein Centre,

2)       June 20^th – 21^st : Population, National Transfer Account, and Economic Dependency, by Bernhard Hammer (WIC)
-        Economic Support Ratios and the Demographic Dividend
-        Age-Specific Household Accounts – National Time Transfer Accounts

3)       June 22^nd - 23^rd:  Population and economic growth, by Jesus Crespo Cuaresma (WIC)

-        An Introduction to Economic Growth Theory: The Solow Model of Economic Growth; Human Capital and Economic Growth; The stylized facts
-        Age Structure, Education and Economic Growth: Revisiting the Demographic Dividend
-        Human Capital and Economic Development: A Projection Exercise

To explore the projections by levels of educational attainment, including projection developed for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) according to a set of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) scenarios, see: http://www.wittgensteincentre.org/dataexplorer

To know more about the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) and the AGENTA project, see: http://www.ntaccounts.org/web/nta/show/ 

About ADRI:

• The Asian Demographic Research Institute, led by Prof. Leiwen Jiang, was established in June 2015. The chair of the International Scientific Advisory Committee is Prof. Wolfgang Lutz. The institute is working on five pillars in demography: Population and Environment, Human Capital and Development, Internal Migration and Urbanization, International Migration and Health and Ageing. ADRI is the head-quarter of Asian Meta-Center and offers an International Masters in Asian Demography and a Phd Program.

For more information:
http://adri.shu.edu.cn