Syllabus for Demography 210

Professor Kenneth W. Wachter

Fall Semester 2012, U.C. Berkeley


   I   --     ....     --    (Semester starts in Week II)     
 
   II   --  29 Aug     --     Exponential Growth          
        --             --     Slopes, areas, and person-years          
   
  III   --   5 Sep     --     Lifetables and hazard functions          
   
   IV   --  12 Sep     --     Gompertz Models 
    
    V   --  19 Sep     --     Cohort Fertility and Parity  
        --             --     Competing Risks   
   
   VI   --  26 Sep     --     Population Projection    
 
  VII   --   3  Oct    --     Period Fertility, NRRs and TFRs    
        --             --     Tempo and Quantum    
   
 VIII   --   10 Oct    --     Fertility Limitation  
        --             --     Marriage and Family; the SMAFM 
   
  IX    --  17 Oct     --     Period Lifetables  
        --             --     Model Lifetables 
 
   X    --  24 Oct     --     Proportional Hazards      
        --             --     Frailty and Demographic Selection     
  
 
   XI   --  31 Oct     --     Long-Term Projections    
        --             --     Lotka's r    
  
  XII    --  7 Nov      --    Stable Population Theory    
         --             --    Lotka's Equation and Population Renewal    
   
 XIII    --  14 Nov     --    Migration and Location 
   
  XIV    --  22 Nov     --    Review  
         --  23 Nov     --    THANKSGIVING DAY        
   
   XV    --  28 Nov     --    Measures of Concentration
         --             --    Biodemography 

  XVI    --   5 Dec     --    Final Examination