Hitchcock LECTURE SERIES

Changes in the Process of Aging during the Twentieth Century

Common Analytical Errors in Explanations for Improvements in Health and Longevity

Robert W. Fogel, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, and Director of the Center for Population Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago

November 17, 2004
International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley

Nobel laureate Robert Fogel describes four common errors made by economists when dealing with issues of health, longevity, and equity.

About Robert W. Fogel

Robert W. Fogel is widely recognized for his important contributions to economic science that further the understanding of long-term technological and institutional change. His early work focused on railroads and economic growth in American history. Since the late 1980s, Fogel's principal research has focused on explaining the secular decline in mortality and the changing pattern of aging over the life cycle in the United States. In 1993, he was the recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics for "having renewed research in economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change."

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