Posted: September 13th, 2017
Economics
Reading Questions (5 points each)
Xie, 2000
1. What is the difference between survey data and population data? Give an example of each.
Bloom, 2011
1. Find two statistics in the article that can help explain why India’s population is expected to surpass China’s even though China is currently larger than
India. Explain your thought process.
2. Why did Malthus (see Lee, 2003 on Malthus) think that population growth was such a big problem? How does this perspective related to that outlined the
Population Bomb, the book discussed in David Lam’s talk? Does Lam convince you that the world can survive population growth? Do the figures he shows from Sub-Saharan
Africa worry you in light of the projected population growth in these countries outlined in Bloom’s paper?
3. Why do lower infant mortality rates affect life expectancy more than helping old people live longer?
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