As one of nine centers established by the National Institute on Aging, the Berkeley Center forms part of the national infrastructure for developing the relatively new field of the demography of aging. The goals of the UC Berkeley Center include facilitating interaction among faculty already engaged in economic and demographic research on aging and encouraging additional faculty to undertake research in this area. Those who are currently conducting research in this area are a highly interdisciplinary group drawn from economics, demography, public policy, anthropology, sociology, statistics, and biology, from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Stanford. Other goals include providing infrastructural support through computing and data access, supporting new research initiatives by funding pilot projects, and funding workshops and conferences on topics at the research frontier for aging.
Our members' aging research clusters around various themes: analysis and forecasting of mortality and populations at both the aggregate and micro levels; life cycle planning, asset accumulation, and interage transfers as motivated by needs in old age; elderly health status and health care utilization; and biodemography of longevity.
There are 17 publications in this collection, published between 2000 and 2018.
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