Macroeconomic Demography of Intergenerational Transfers

我和梅森最初的平行R01提案(我的是 后来改装成R37)是为七个国家开发NTA：美国、法国、智利、巴西 (由我资助)，以及日本、台湾和印度尼西亚(由梅森资助)。这一选择的国家是在 部分原因是它们表现出的经济、人口、制度和政策变化的范围，部分原因是 PIS与这些国家的潜在合作者的个人联系。从那时起，该项目已经 规模扩大了两倍多，包括了23个多样性程度更高的国家。这一扩张 以几种方式发生。1)日本小组组长小川直弘获得了人口基金的资金，以增加印度， 中国、菲律宾和泰国来了该项目。2)我们收到了来自以下方面的主动加入项目的请求 来自韩国、澳大利亚、奥地利、斯洛文尼亚、瑞典、芬兰、匈牙利、哥斯达黎加和乌拉圭的研究人员。 其中四个新的国家小组与我们接触，因为他们以前曾在传统的世代 他希望将分析范围扩大到包括私人转移。3)墨西哥和次区域国家 撒哈拉非洲(肯尼亚和尼日利亚)是在我们积极寻找和征聘后加入的。 非洲领队希望将南非加入到该项目中，巴西队正在寻求 将莫桑比克加入该项目。一些额外的研究人员提出了我们拒绝的请求 由于所涉国家的现有数据存在问题或它们不适合该项目。我的 到目前为止，将德国和意大利加入该项目的努力尚未成功，因为很难找到 正确的研究人员。通常，团队有一名高级领导和一名初级成员，他们实际执行 估计。有时这是一名研究生。我们在这个网站上列出了63个成员，分布广泛 年龄：42%的人年龄在40岁以下，67%的人年龄在50岁以下。

The original parallel R01 proposals from myself and Mason (mine was subsequently converted to a R37) were to develop the NTA for seven countries: the US, France, Chile, Brazil (on my grant), and Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia (on Mason's grant). This choice of countries was governed in part by the range of economic, demographic, institutional and policy variations they exhibited, and in part by personal contacts of the Pis with potential collaborators in these countries. Since that time the project has more than tripled in size to include 23 countries with an even greater span of diversity. This expansion occurred in several ways. 1) Naohiro Ogawa, the team leader for Japan, obtained UNFPA funding to add India, China, the Philippines and Thailand to the project. 2) We received unsolicited requests to join the project from researchers in S. Korea, Australia, Austria, Slovenia, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Costa Rica, and Uruguay. Four of these new country teams approached us because they had previously done traditional Generational Accounting and wished to extend the analysis to include private transfers. 3) Mexico and countries in sub- Saharan Africa (Kenya and Nigeria) were added after an active search and recruitment process on our part. The African team leaders are hoping to add South Africa to the project, and the Brazilian team is seeking to add Mozambique to the project. Some additional researchers have made requests that we have turned down due to problems with the available data for the countries in question or their unsuitability for the project. My efforts to add Germany and Italy to the project have so far not been successful due to difficulties locating the right researchers. Typically a team has a senior leader and a junior member who actually carries out the estimation. Sometimes this is a graduate student. We list 63 members on the web site with a wide distribution of ages: 42% are under 40 and 67% are under 50.