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

Changes in the Process of Aging during the Twentieth Century
Lecture I: Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases during the Course of the Twentieth Century
Lecture II: Common Analytical Errors in Explanations for Improvements in Health and Longevity
Tuesday & Wednesday, November 16-17, 2004 — 4:10 p.m.
International House

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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