The original parallel R01 proposals from myself and Mason (mine was subsequently converted to a R37) were to develop the NTA for seven countries: the US, France, Chile, Brazil (on my grant), and Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia (on Mason's grant). This choice of countries was governed in part by the range of economic, demographic, institutional and policy variations they exhibited, and in part by personal contacts of the Pis with potential collaborators in these countries. Since that time the project has more than tripled in size to include 23 countries with an even greater span of diversity. This expansion occurred in several ways. 1) Naohiro Ogawa, the team leader for Japan, obtained UNFPA funding to add India, China, the Philippines and Thailand to the project. 2) We received unsolicited requests to join the project from researchers in S. Korea, Australia, Austria, Slovenia, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Costa Rica, and Uruguay. Four of these new country teams approached us because they had previously done traditional Generational Accounting and wished to extend the analysis to include private transfers. 3) Mexico and countries in sub- Saharan Africa (Kenya and Nigeria) were added after an active search and recruitment process on our part. The African team leaders are hoping to add South Africa to the project, and the Brazilian team is seeking to add Mozambique to the project. Some additional researchers have made requests that we have turned down due to problems with the available data for the countries in question or their unsuitability for the project. My efforts to add Germany and Italy to the project have so far not been successful due to difficulties locating the right researchers. Typically a team has a senior leader and a junior member who actually carries out the estimation. Sometimes this is a graduate student. We list 63 members on the web site with a wide distribution of ages: 42% are under 40 and 67% are under 50.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award (R37)
Project #
5R37AG025247-06
Application #
7837721
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (NSS)
Program Officer
Patmios, Georgeanne E
Project Start
2005-05-15
Project End
2013-04-30
Budget Start
2010-05-01
Budget End
2011-04-30
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2010
Total Cost
$276,733
Indirect Cost
Name
University of California Berkeley
Department
Miscellaneous
Type
Organized Research Units
DUNS #
124726725
City
Berkeley
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
94704
Mason, Andrew; Lee, Ronald; Jiang, Jennifer Xue (2016) Demographic Dividends, Human Capital, and Saving. J Econ Ageing 7:106-122
Lee, Ronald (2015) Becker and the Demographic Transition. J Demogr Economics 81:67-74
Mejía-Guevara, Iván (2015) Economic Inequality and Intergenerational Transfers: Evidence from Mexico. J Econ Ageing 5:23-32
Lee, Ronald; Lee, Sang-Hyop; Mason, Andrew (2014) Charting the Economic Life Cycle. Popul Dev Rev 34:208-237
Lee, Ronald; Mason, Andrew; members of the NTA Network (2014) Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption. Science 346:229-34
Lee, Ronald (2013) Intergenerational Transfers, the Biological Life Cycle, and Human Society. Popul Dev Rev 38:23-35
Mason, Andrew; Lee, Ronald (2013) Labor and Consumption across the Lifecycle. J Econ Ageing 1-2:
Cyrus, Chu C Y; Lee, Ronald D (2013) On the evolution of intergenerational division of labor, menopause and transfers among adults and offspring. J Theor Biol 332:171-80
Li, Nan; Lee, Ronald; Gerland, Patrick (2013) Extending the Lee-carter method to model the rotation of age patterns of mortality decline for long-term projections. Demography 50:2037-51
Lee, Ronald; Chu, C Y Cyrus (2012) The evolution of transfers and life histories. Exp Gerontol 47:803-6

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