9th NTA Conference with Presentations and Summaries

Ninth Meeting of the Working Group on Macroeconomic Aspects of Intergenerational Transfers: Barcelona, Spain, 3 - 8 June 2013

Monday 3 June 2013

08:30 – 09:00: Registration

09:00 – 09:30: Welcoming remarks by Ció Patxot (Chair, Organizing Committee); Elisenda Paluzie (Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona); Elsa Artadi (representative of the Catalan Government); Andrew Mason (Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii and East-West Center); and Ron Lee (Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Family Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley)

09:30 – 10:45: Plenary Session I: David de la Croix (Professor of Economics, IRES and CORE, UCLouvain): Policy implications of endogenous fertility: De la Croix presentation

10:45 – 11:15: Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45: Parallel Session I: A. Inequality; B. Public Sector I

12:45 – 14:30: Lunch

14:30 – 16:15: Parallel Session II: A. Generational Economy over Time I; B. Gender and Time Use I

16:15 – 16:45: Coffee break

16:45 – 18:30: Parallel Session III: A. Gender and Time Use II; Public Sector II--Macroeconomic Issues; C. Public Sector III--Immigration and other Issues

18:30 – 21:30: Reception hosted by Elsevier to introduce the new Journal of Economics of Aging

Tuesday 4 June 2013

8:45 – 10:30: Parallel Session IV: A. New NTA Country Estimates I; B. Generational Accounting I; C. Public Sector IV

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 – 12:45: Parallel Session V: A. Generational Economy over Time II--Inter-Country Comparisons; B. Public Sector V

12:45 – 14:30: Lunch

14:30 - 15:15: Group Picture - Palau de Pedralbes gardens

15:15 – 16:30: Plenary Session: Chair: Andrew Mason

Ron Lee and Andrew Mason: Reformulating the Support Ratio to Reflect Asset Income and Transfers: Lee presentation

Maurizio Bussolo: Capital for the Future: Saving and Investment in an Interdependent World: Bussolo presentation

Regional projects

Africa: Adedoyin Soyibo (Africa region presentation)
Asia-Pacific: Sang-Hyop Lee (Asia region presentation)
Europe: Ció Patxot (Europe region presentation)
Latin America and the Caribbean: Paulo Saad
North America: Ron Lee

16:30 – 17:00: Coffee break

17:00 – 18:00: Round table: Data Needs for the Analysis of Population Ageing and Intergenerational Transfers: Chair: Ron Lee

Speakers:

Veli Laine (European Commission): The Work of the Ageing Working Group of the Economic Policy Committee and the European Commission in Facing Population Ageing in Europe (Laine presentation)
Sixto Muriel (Spanish National Institute of Statistics): Future Prospects for Spain's Population: The role of INE's Population Projections (Muriel presentation)
Robert Gal (TARKI Social Research Institute)
Gretchen Donehower (University of California, Berkeley)
Tim Miller, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

18:00 – 19:00: Launch of United Nations NTA Manual: Chair: Jorge Bravo (Chief, Population and Development Section, DESA-Population Division, United Nations)

Speakers: Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason
Discussants: Tim Miller, and Concepción Patxot (University of Barcelona)

20:00 – 22:00: Conference Dinner

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Track A

9:00 – 10:00: Lecture: Overview, Getting Started (Gretchen Donehower)

10:00 – 12:00: Lab: Data Orientation, Getting Started (Gretchen Donehower)

Track B

9:00 - 11:15: Working Group Meeting: Demographic Dividends in Africa, Part 1 (Andrew Mason email and Adedoyin Soyibo)

10:00 – 11:00: Working Group Meeting: Generational Accounts (Young Jun Chun email)

11:00 - 12:00: Working Group Meeting: Bequests, Capital Transfers, Part 1 (Miguel Sánchez Romero email)

12:00 - 14:00: Lunch

Track A

14:00 - 15:00: Lecture: Macro Controls(Andrew Mason). Supplemental spreadsheet Macro control based on UNSNA 2008.training version.xlsx

15:00 - 17:00: Lab: Macro Controls (Andrew Mason)

Track B

14:00 - 15:00: Working Group Meeting: Economics of Aging Indicators (Róbert Gál email)

15:00 - 16:00: Working Group Meeting: Time Use and Gender, Part 1 (Gretchen Donehower email)

16:00 - 17:00: Working Group Meeting: Analyzing Inequality, Part 1 (Paulo Saad email, Cassio Turra, and Tim Miller)

Thursday 6 June 2013

Track A

9:00 – 10:00: Lecture: Labor Income (Nicole Mun Sim Lai) Labor income lecture

10:00 – 12:00: Lab: Labor Income (Nicole Mun Sim Lai)

Track B

9:00 - 12:00: Working Group Meeting: Time Use and Gender, Part 2 (Gretchen Donehower email)

9:00 - 12:00: Working Group Meeting: Demographic Dividends in Africa, Part 2 (Andrew Mason email and Adedoyin Soyibo)

9:00 - 10:30: Working Group Meeting: Aging in Argentina (Michele Gragnolati) Aging in Argentina

12:00 - 14:00: Lunch

Track A

14:00 - 15:00: Lecture: Consumption (Sang Hyop Lee)

15:00 - 17:00: Lab: Consumption Exercise (Sang Hyop Lee)

Track B

14:00 - 17:00: Working Group Meeting: Bequests, Capital Transfers, Part 2: Spreadsheet Estimation of Bequests (Miguel Sánchez Romero email)

14:00 – 17:00: Working Group Meeting: Analyzing Inequality, Part 2 (Paulo Saad email, Cassio Turra, and Tim Miller)

14:00 – 17:00: Workshop: Communicating NTA results to policymakers (Sidney Westley email)

Friday 7 June 2013

Track A

9:00 – 10:00: Lecture: Reallocations (Gretchen Donehower) Reallocations lecture

10:00 – 12:00: Lab: Final Preparations for Poster Session

Track B

9:00 – 11:15: Working Group Meeting: Demographic Dividends in Africa, Part 3 (Andrew Mason email and Adedoyin Soyibo)

9:00 – 12:00: Regional Meetings, Other Working Group Meetings, or Poster Preparation Time

12:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 17:00: Poster Session and Wrap-Up