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Demography 110
Syllabus for Demography 110
Professor Kenneth W. Wachter
Fall Semester 2012, U.C. Berkeley
I -- 23 Aug -- The balancing equation for populations
II -- 28 Aug -- Exponential growth
-- 30 Aug -- Cohorts, periods, and Lexis diagrams
III -- 4 Sep -- Cohort survival and hazards
-- 6 Sep -- Converting probabilities of dying
IV -- 11 Sep -- The cohort life table; Annuities
-- 13 Sep -- Cohort Fertility
V -- 18 Sep -- NRR, TFR, GRR
-- 20 Sep -- Parity and Natural Fertility
VI -- 25 Sep -- Population Projection
-- 27 Sep -- Leslie Matrices
VII -- 2 Oct -- Period Fertility
-- 4 Oct -- MID-TERM EXAMINATION
VIII -- 9 Oct -- Standardized Rates
-- 11 Oct -- Princeton Indices and M and m
IX -- 16 Oct -- Period Lifetables
-- 18 Oct -- Model Lifetables
X -- 23 Oct -- Coale-Demeny and Brass Model Tables
-- 25 Oct -- Marriage and the Singulate Mean
XI -- 30 Oct -- Consequences of Unchanging Rates
-- 1 Nov -- Stable Pyramids and Lotka's $r$
XII -- 6 Nov -- Population Momentum
-- 8 Nov -- Country Reports
XIII -- 13 Nov -- Migration
-- 15 Nov -- Rural-Urban Flows
XIV -- 20 Nov -- Concentration Measures
-- 22 Nov -- THANKSGIVING DAY
XV -- 27 Nov -- Evolution and Biodemography
-- 29 Nov -- Review