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Funding Opportunities
Visiting Scholar
 PGDA
welcomes two Visiting Scholars for the academic
year 2005-2006.
Younghwan Song is a labor economist and
assistant professor of economics at Union College in Schenectady,
NY. He received his B.A. and M.A. in economics at Seoul National
University in 1991 and 1993, and his M. Phil. and Ph.D. in economics
at Columbia University in 1996 and 2002. In 2002, Younghwan
was a research analyst at the National Center for Children in
Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. As
a visiting scholar, Younghwan will be working with David Bloom
and David Canning and explore the effects of life expectancy
on labor supply and savings.
Jocelyn Finlay is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer at the Australian National University, Canberra Australia. She received her B.A. in Japanese and B.Comm (Hons) in Economics at The University of Melbourne, Australia in 2001. Jocelyn has been working on theoretical models relating life expectancy and economic growth, and while visiting the PGDA she will extend her work to an empirical application using cross country data to analyze the incentive effects of life expectancy on schooling investment and economic growth.
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