Welcome to the sixth issue of the NTA Newsletter!

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What's New

NTA conference in Brazil

The eighth global NTA meeting will take place during December 5-12, 2011, in Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We are now accepting paper submissions for the conference. Please email your abstract to meeting@ntaccounts.org. Click here to see the workshop website for more information.

Bulletin Number 2:
Transferring resources between age groups: What role do governments play?

The second NTA Bulletin is now available online! The topic is "Transferring resources between age groups: What roles do governments play?"

We would like to improve our mailing list. Please let us know of individuals or institutions that should receive the NTA Bulletin. Information can be sent to contact@ntaccounts.org.

NTA Data Sheet

The wallchart that will appear in the book is now available in a letter size document format. It is titled National Transfer Accounts Data Sheet 2011, and is available on the NTA website homepage. Printed versions will be available near the time of the book publication.

European NTA Website

The European NTA Accounts project now has its own website. The site is also available from the main NTA page. Login procedure is the same as for the main NTA site.

Update on NTA book

Please review and let Sandra know about any changes needed to your chapter. The book should be available by the end of the summer.

In the news

Joze Sambt and his colleague, Mitja Cok, wrote an article in Delo (a Slovenian newspaper) about the importance of pension-reform measures that the Slovenian government passed in December 2010. The article emphasized the need for increasing the current pensionable age and featured NTA research. The article (in Slovenian) can be found on the NTA homepage. The reform measures were put up for popular referendum on June 5, but unfortunately they did not pass.

Andy Mason wrote an editorial for China Daily: Economics of aging population. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser also ran an article based on NTA project findings, titled Aging of Asia. Links to these articles can also be found on NTA homepage.

The Comptroller General of Costa Rica highlighted the research of the NTA Costa Rican team (Luis Rosero-Bixby and Pamela Jimenez-Fontana) in this year's Annual Report of the Comptroller General to the Costa Rican Legislature. The first chapter of the Comptroller's report was entitled "The Fiscal Impacts of Population Aging: Challenges and Opportunites". The annual report is available in Spanish online at: Memoria Anual 2010 (note: it is a large pdf document and takes a long time to load). The complete manuscript provided to the Comptroller General by the NTA team is also available online.

Research from the Latin American and Caribbean NTA group was highlighted in the annual report on poverty issued by the United Nations Economic Commission for the region. The annual report, "Social Panorama of Latin America 2010" focused on educational differences and the recurrence of inequality in Latin America and the need for state intervention to break the cycle. Thanks to Cassio Turra of the Brazil group for leading the effort. The NTA chapter was entitled "The generational economy, transfer systems, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean" and can be downloaded here.

Recent and upcoming events

Meeting on Unpaid Labor Satellite Accounts

Several members of the Working Group on Time Use and Gender met in Berkeley on June 12 and 13 to discuss their progress and brainstorm solutions to problems encountered during their work. They have been using Time Use data to estimate the age profiles of non-market labor, consumption and transfers for several countries, or are getting ready to begin this work.

The meetings focused on documenting the methods used by the different teams. A draft of the methodology will be posted to the NTA wiki so that all country teams who are interested in starting this important work can benefit from the experience of others.

Please contact Gretchen, the coordinator of the working group on Time Use and Gender, if you would like more information about the meeting or the group.



European NTA Workshop

NTA researchers from European countries met in Budapest, Hungary, on May 13.

The following research projects were presented:
Backcasting National Transfer Accounts in Sweden from 1800 to 2009 (Thomas Lindh, Gustav Oeberg, and Miguel Sanchez-Romero)
Introducing Age into Household Satellite Accounts (Robert Gal, Marton Medgyesi, and E. Szabo)
The Impact of Population Aging on Fiscal Policies in Germany (Fanny Annemarie Kluge)
Age Reallocations Through Public Tranfers in Austria: An Analysis Using National Transfer Accounts (Bernhard Hammer)
Changing Patterns of Economic Life-cycle for Finland and Sweden (Jovan Zamac, Reijo Vanne, and Risto Vaittinen)
NTA in the UK: Some Applications (David G McCarthy)
The First and Second Demographic Dividend in European NTA Countries: an update (Joze Sambt and Alexia Prskawetz)
Click here for further information including abstracts and presentations. Please note that NTA login is required to view all content.



NTA workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam

Nihon University Population Research Institute (NUPRI) and Thai Development Research Institute (TDRI) organized a workshop in Hanoi from May 31 to June 5, which was assisted by Sang-Hyop Lee and Nicole Lai. The objective of this workshop was to provide technical assistance to the Vietnamese researchers in understanding NTA concepts and constructing NTA estimates. The workshop was very fruitful and the Vietnamese team completed the lifecycle deficit analysis.

In photo: sitting, from left: Nguyen Thi Lan Huong (Director General, Institute of Labor Science and Social Affairs), Sang-Hyop Lee
standing, from Left: Giang Thanh Long (Vice Dean, School of Public Policy Management, National Economics University), Nicole Mun Sim Lai, Pham Minh Thu (Deputy Head, Division for Industrial Relation Studies, Institute of Labor Science and Social Affairs), Pham Ngoc Toan (Division of Forecasting, Institute of labor Science & Social Affairs)



NTA at the Population Association of America Annual Conference



The NTA project participated in the exhibition associated with the PAA 2011 conference, held in Washington DC, from March 30 to April 2.

In addition to advertising the first book resulting from the project, Population aging and the generational economy: A global perspective, we established contacts that could lead to future collaborations.

We expect that the overall visibility of the project in the academic and research institutions will benefit from this exhibition.

Diana Stojanovic and Melinda Podor were responsible for organizing the NTA booth, and also spent the majority of time attending to the booth. Thank you to our volunteers Luis Rosero-Bixby, Gretchen Donehower, Fanny Kluge, Ronald Lee, Andy Mason, Tim Miller, Olanrewaju Olaniyan (Lanre), and Bernardo Lanza Queiroz.

In photos: Diana Stojanovic, Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, Miguel Sanchez-Romero, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Melinda Podor, and Andy Mason.



Presentation at Woodrow Wilson Center

Andrew Mason and Ronald Lee gave a talk at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on April 1, 2011. The title of their presentation was "Dividend or Deficit? The Economic Effects of Population Age Structure". The abstract and a video of the presentation is available online.



ADB conference in Seoul, South Korea



Asia Development Bank (ADB) organized a conference on “Demographic Transition and Economic Growth in Asia” in Seoul from May 19 to 20, 2011. Papers will be summarized in the 2011 ADB Outlook Update. A conference volume, edited by Sang-Hyop Lee, Andrew Mason, and Donghyun Park (ADB), will include comparative chapters and chapters on China, India, and Japan. Other NTA researchers presenting at the conference included Chung-Bum An, Qiulin Chen, Hiro Ogawa, Laishram Ladusingh, and Wang Feng.

Publications

The Price of Maturity
Lee, Ronald and Andrew Mason
Finance and Development, 48(1). 2011. Access paper online

Consumption and Income Over the Lifecycle in Nigeria
Olaniyan, Olanrewaju, Adedoyin Soyibo and Akanni O. Lawanson
African Population Studies Vol 25, 1 (April). 2011. Access paper online

Welcome to our newest members

Graziella Caselli, Italy
Department of Demography, Sapienza University of Rome
email: graziella.caselli@uniroma1,it







Francesco Candelor Billari, Italy
Bocconi University
email: francesco.billari@unibocconi.it







Annunziata Nobile, Italy
Department of International Studies, University Roma
email: nobile@uniroma3.it







Emilio Zagheni, Italy
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
email: zagheni@demogr.mpg.de







Marina Zannella, Italy
Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome
email: marina.zannella@uniroma1.it

Announcements

Congratulations to Dr. Marjorie Pajaron and Dr. Turro Wongkaren for the completion of their Ph.D. degrees.

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