Center for Population Economics

The Center for Population Economics...

Receives its primary funding from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under program project grant P01 AG10120.

Specializes in the development of life-cycle and intergenerational data sets to study demographic, epidemiological, and economic processes.

Initiates and supports cutting-edge research in the fields of human aging, disability, labor force participation, and mortality.

Forecasts future trends in aging, health, and retirement through historical analysis.

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME!
THE FULL UNION ARMY SAMPLE HAS BEEN RELEASED. THIS RELEASE MAKES AVAILABLE LIFE CYCLE DATA ON THE FULL 39,340 SAMPLE OF UNION ARMY VETERANS.
ALSO AVAILABLE NOW IS THE FINAL RELEASE OF THE UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS SAMPLE, WHERE NEARLY 6,000 VETERANS OF THE USCT ARE REPRESENTED.
BOTH RELEASES ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AND CAN BE LOCATED WITHIN THE SAMPLE SELECTION SECTION OF THE CPE DATA EXTRACTION SYSTEM.

UPCOMING ECONOMICS & BIODEMOGRAPHY OF AGING AND HEALTH WORKSHOP: Friday, May 25, 2012

There will be no workshops scheduled May 11 or May 18. Please join us when we resume on May 25 and welcome the CPE's own Jonathan Hersh.

The weekly Economics & Biodemography of Aging and Health Workshop is held every Friday from 1:30-3:00PM (unless otherwise noted) in seminar room 3A of the Charles M. Harper Center in the Chicago Booth School of Business located at 5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago. Students, faculty, and all interested researchers are invited and encouraged to attend.

Please visit our workshop web page for current and archived papers and/or slides as they become available. If you have any questions or would like to be added to our workshop mailing list, please feel free to contact our workshop coordinator.