2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005

The PDGA and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies invite members of the public health community to submit working papers reflecting their research. The purpose of our Working Paper Series is to share research prior to journal publication and stimulate debate and critical comments. Working papers also give an opportunity to authors to publish longer and more detailed material than can appear in a journal.

All papers go through a review process at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. However, full responsibility for the content of the papers remains with the author(s).

For submissions, comments or questions, please email: kfabella@hsph.harvard.edu.

2009

• Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce
  Till Bärnighausen and David E. Bloom
  PGDA Working Paper#46.2009
  
  
• The Economic Case for Expanding Vaccination Coverage of Children
  Till Bärnighausen, David E. Bloom, David Canning, Abigail Friedman, Orin Levine, Jennifer O'Brien, Lois Privor-Dumm, Damian Walker
  PGDA Working Paper#45.2009
  

• Disease and Development Revisited
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Guenther Fink
  PGDA Working Paper#44.2009
  
  
• Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: a systematic review
  Till Bärnighausen and David E. Bloom
  PGDA Working Paper#43.2009

2008

• Demographic Change, Institutional Settings, and Labor Supply
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink and Jocelyn Finlay
  PGDA Working Paper#42.2008

• Demographic Change and Economic Growth in Asia
  David E. Bloom and Jocelyn Finlay
  PGDA Working Paper#41.2008
  
  
• Population Aging and Economic Growth in Asia
  David E. Bloom, David Canning and Jocelyn Finlay
  PGDA Working Paper#40.2008
  
  
• Medicine and Economics: Accounting for the full benefits of childhood vaccination in South Africa
  Till Bärnighausen, David E. Bloom, David Canning and Jennifer O'Brien
  PGDA Working Paper#39.2008
  
  
• Estimating health worker need to provide antiretroviral treatment in the developing world
  Till Bärnighausen, David E. Bloom and Salal Humair
  PGDA Working Paper#38.2008
  
  
• Designing financial-incentive programmes for return of medical service in underserved areas of sub-Saharan Africa
  Till Bärnighausen and David E. Bloom
  PGDA Working Paper#37.2008
  
  
• Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: a systematic review
  Till Bärnighausen and David E. Bloom
  PGDA Working Paper#36.2008

• Disease Control
  Dean T. Jamison, Prabhat Jha and David E. Bloom
  PGDA Working Paper#35.2008
  
  
• Social Interactions and Fertility in Developing Countries
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Isabel Günther and Sebastian Linnemayr
  PGDA Working Paper#34.2008
  
  
• The Mortality and Morbidity Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Adult Heights
  Yoko Akachi and David Canning
  PGDA Working Paper#33.2008
  
  
• The High Cost of Low Fertility in Europe
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, and Jocelyn E. Finlay
  PGDA Working Paper#32.2008
  
  
• Population Aging and Economic Growth
  David E. Bloom, David Canning and Günther Fink
  PGDA Working Paper#31.2008
  
  
• Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations
  David E. Bloom, David Canning and Günther Fink
  PGDA Working Paper#30.2008

2007

• Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Tarun Khanna, and Patrick Salyer
  PGDA Working Paper#29.2007
  
  
• The Contribution of Population Health and Demographic Change to Economic Growth in China and India
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Linlin Hu, Yuanli Liu, Ajay Mahal, and Winnie Yip
  PGDA Working Paper#28.2007
  
  
• Valuing Lives Equally and Welfare Economics
  David Canning
  PGDA Working Paper#27.2007

• A Theory of Retirement
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Michael Moore
  PGDA Working Paper#26.2007
  
  
• Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink and Jocelyn E. Finlay
  PGDA Working Paper#25.2007
  
  
• “Conditional scholarships” for HIV/AIDS health workers: educating and retaining the workforce to provide antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa
  Till Bärnighausen and David E. Bloom
  PGDA Working Paper#24.2007
  
  
• Realizing the Demographic Dividend: Is Africa any different?
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Jocelyn Finlay
  PGDA Working Paper#23.2007
  
  
• The Height of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Role of Health, Nutrition, and Income in Childhood
  Yoko Akachi and David Canning
  PGDA Working Paper#22.2007
  
  
• The Role of Health in Economic Development
  Jocelyn Finlay
  PGDA Working Paper#21.2007
  
  
• Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth?
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Jocelyn Finlay
  PGDA Working Paper #20.2007
  

2006

• Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings
  David E. Bloom and David Canning, Rick Mansfield, and Michael Moore
  PGDA Working Paper #19.2006
  
  
• The Economics of HIV/AIDS in Low-Income Countries: The Case for Prevention
  David Canning
  PGDA Working Paper #18.2006
  
  
• The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Michael Moore, and Younghwan Song
  PGDA Working Paper #17.2006
  
  
• Assessing the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nigerian Households: A Propensity Score Matching Approach
  David Canning, Ajay Mahal, Kunle Odumosu, Prosper Okonkwo
  PGDA Working Paper #16.2006
  
  
• Booms, Busts, and Echoes: How the Biggest Demographic Upheaval in History
  is Affecting Global Development
  David E. Bloom and David Canning
  PGDA Working Paper #15.2006
  

• Global Demography: Fact, Force and Future
  David E. Bloom and David Canning
  PGDA Working Paper #14.2006
  
  
• The Consequences of Population Health for Economic Performance
  Marcella Alsan, David Bloom, David Canning, and Dean Jamison
  PGDA Working Paper #13.2006
  
  
• China's Growth to 2030: The Roles of Demographic Change and Investment Premia
  Rod Tyers and Jane Golley
  PGDA Working Paper #12.2006
  
  
• China's Growth to 2030: Demographic Change and the Labour Supply Constraint
  Jane Golley and Rod Tyers
  PGDA Working Paper #11.2006
  
  
• The Global Implications of Freer Skilled Migration
  Rod Tyers, Iain Bain and Jahnvi Vedi
  PGDA Working Paper #10.2006
  
  
• Epidemics and Economics
  David E. Bloom, David Canning
  PGDA Working Paper #9.2006
  
  
• Demographic Challenges, Fiscal Sustainability and Economic Growth
  David E. Bloom, David Canning
  PGDA Working Paper #8.2006
  
  
• Endogenous Longevity and Economic Growth
  Jocelyn Finlay
  PGDA Working Paper #7.2006
  
  

2005

• The Influence of Medicare Home Health Payment Incentives: Does Payer Source Matter?
  David C. Grabowski, David G. Stevenson, Haiden A. Huskamp, Nancy L. Keating
  PGDA Working Paper #6.2005
  
  
• The Political Economy of Reform in Brazil’s Civil Servant Pension Scheme
  André Medici
  PGDA Working Paper #5.2005
  
  
• The Centrality of Variability How Society Shapes Patterns of Aging
  Lisa F. Berkman, Maria Glymour
  PGDA Working Paper #4.2004
  
  
• Perceptions of Risk and Strategies for Prevention: Responses to HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi
  Kirsten P. Smith, Susan Cotts Watkins
  PGDA Working Paper #3.2005
  
  
• The Effect of Improvements in Health and Longevity on Optimal Retirement and Saving
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Michael Moore
  HIGH Working Paper #2.2005
  
  
• Global Demographic Change: Dimensions and Economic Significance
  David E. Bloom, David Canning
  HIGH Working Paper #1.2005