Andrew Mason

Dr. Mason's current research is examining the impact of slowing population growth, poverty, saving, and wealth.

He is co-director of the National Transfer Accounts project involving researchers from more than twenty countries in Asia, North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. The participating scholars are developing a comprehensive approach to measuring and studying the systems countries use to meet the economic needs of children and the elderly. When completed, National Transfer will be used to study the evolution of familial support systems, public pensions, health care, and education systems and their influence on economic growth, poverty, generational equity, and other features of the macroeconomy.

Selected Current Research

• Andrew Mason and Mitoshi Yamaguchi (eds.), 2007. Population Change, Labor Markets and Sustainable Growth: Towards a New Economic Paradigm, Elsevier Press.

• Tomoko Kinugasa and Andrew Mason, 2007. "Why Countries Become Wealthy: The Effects of Adult Longevity on Saving," World Development 35(1): 1-23.

• Ronald Lee, Sang-Hyop Lee, and Andrew Mason, 2007. "Charting the Economic Lifecycle," Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth, a supplement to Population and Development Review 33. A. Prskawetz, D.E. Bloom and W. Lutz. New York, Population Council. Also NBER Working Paper, No. 12379 (July).

• Andrew Mason, 2007. "Demographic Dividends: The Past, the Present, and the Future" in Population Change, Labor Markets and Sustainable Growth: Towards a New Economic Paradigm, Andrew Mason and Mitoshi Yamaguchi (eds.), Elsevier Press.

• Wang Feng and Andrew Mason, 2007. "Population Aging in China: Challenges, Opportunities, and Institutions," Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century, edited by Zhongwei Zhao and Fei Guo, Oxford University Press, pp. 177-196.

• Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, and Naohiro Ogawa (eds.), forthcoming. Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy, Elgar Press.

• Andrew Mason and Ronald Lee, forthcoming. "Transfers, Capital, and Consumption Over the Demographic Transition," in Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy, Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, and Naohiroo Ogawa (eds.), Elgar Press.

• Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason, Maliki, Rikiya Matsukura and Kazuro Nemoto, forthcoming. "Population Aging and Health Care Spending in Japan: Public and Private Sector Responses," in Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy, Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, and Naohiro Ogawa (eds.), Elgar Press.

• Wang Feng and Andrew Mason, forthcoming. "Population Aging in China: Challenges, Opportunities, and Institutions," China Population Science [in Chinese].

• Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, An-Chi Tung, Mun Sim Lai, and Tim Miller, forthcoming. "Population Aging and Intergenerational Transfers: Introducing Age into National Income Accounts," Developments in the Economics of Aging, edited by David Wise (National Bureau of Economic Research: University of Chicago Press).

• Andrew Mason and Ronald Lee, 2006. "Reform and Support Systems for the Elderly in Developing Countries: Capturing the Second Demographic Dividend," GENUS LXII(2): 11-35.

• Andrew Mason, 2006. "Demographic Dividends and Public Policy," Asia-Pacific Population Journal 21(3): 7-16.

• Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason, 2006. "Back to Basics: What is the Demographic Dividend," Finance & Development. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary  Fund, pp. 16-17.

• Sang-Hyop Lee and Andrew Mason, 2005. "Mother's Education, Learning-by-Doing, and Child Health Care in Rural India," Comparative Education Review 49(4): 534-551.

• Andrew Mason, 2005. "Economic Demography," in Handbook on Population, Michael Micklin and Dudley Poston, eds., Klewer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

• Andrew Mason and Sang-Hyop Lee, 2004. "Population Aging and the Extended Family in Taiwan: A New Model for Analyzing and Projecting Living Arrangements," Demographic Research.

• Andrew Mason, 2003. “Population Change and Economic Development: What have we learned from the East Asia Experience?”Applied Population and Policy 1(1).

• Ronald Lee, Andrew Mason, and Timothy Miller, 2003. “Saving, Wealth and the Transition from Transfers to Individual Responsibility: The Cases of Taiwan and the United States” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 105(3).

• A. Mason and G. Tapinos, eds., Sharing the Wealth: Demographic Change and Economic Transfers between Generations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

• Andrew Mason, Thomas Merrick, and R. Paul Shaw, eds., 1999. Population Economics, Demographic Transition, and Development: Research and Policy Implications, WBI Working Papers (Washington, DC: World Bank Institute).

Grants and Consultancies: National Institute on Aging, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNFPA, Japan Medical Association, USAID, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Professional honors and appointments: Member, Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA), University of California, Berkeley; Member, Harvard Program on the Global Demography of Aging; Visiting Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1998; Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983-84; Treasurer, Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific; Fred M. Taylor prize in economic theory, 1972.

For further information, please see Andrew Mason's University of Hawaii web site.