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The Population Aging Research Center (PARC) was established in
1994 with a grant from the National
Institute on Aging, which fosters research on the demography
and economics of health and aging. PARC sponsors an annual
pilot proposal competition, a
weekly seminar series in conjunction with the Population Studies
Center and an online working paper series
accessible over the Internet.
The overall research themes of PARC reflect the interests and
expertise of our research associates. These include:
Health at Older Ages, including Biodemography
Health and Economics of Pensions and Retirement, and Health Care
Systems
Aging Families and Households, Intergenerational Relations, and
Resource Transfers Across Multiple Generations
Diversity of Aging Populations is a crosscutting theme
Work in each of these areas can be located across dimensions of
analytic methods (formal demography, causal analysis, quantitative
methods); methods of data collection (surveys); strategies for incorporating
temporal processes (life cycle, intergenerational, dynamic relations,
historical demography); social and economic contexts (micro behaviors
in social, cultural networks and in macro economic contests); including
methods and applications of policy analysis and evaluations; and
across and between geographic focus areas (comparative studies,
developing countries, developed countries, international migration).
The research of PARC associates focuses on population and individual
processes in the areas of aging, including both the determinants
and the effects of population composition and population processes
as well as:
Endowments: gender, race, ethnicity, biodemography, family background
Human Resources: Education, Health, Labor, nutrition, illness,
disability, experience
Time Use: labor force participation, occupation, home production,
human capital investments, leisure
Wealth: various forms of financial and physical wealth and returns
on those assets
Marriage, Family, Households: family and household structure,
cohabitation and marital status
Large scale aging research projects are underway in the US, Mexico,
Latin and South America, Africa, and Asia.
The Research Associates of PARC are highly productive. Over the
last five years they have collectively published over 130 papers,
45 book chapters, 13 books, have been awarded 40 peer-reviewed grants
and have written numerous working papers. PARC was originally built
on the intellectual capital of the Population
Studies Center, its administrative home. PARC has substantially
broadened the scope and the diversity of its Associates. Over the
last five years, the number of PARC Associates has increased from
8 to 35. PARC Associates hold appointments in four schools at Penn:
Medicine,
Wharton, Nursing,
as well as Arts and Sciences
(demography, economics, and sociology). PARC is affiliated with
the Penn Alzheimer's Disease
Center, the Leonard Davis
Institute of Health Economics, the Institute
on Aging, the Boettner
Center of Financial Gerontology, and the Pension
Research Council. PARC Associates associates collaborate with
researchers at other NIA
Centers (Michigan,
Wisconsin,
and USC/UCLA),
and with colleagues in North and South America (Mexico, Guatemala,
Chile, Colombia), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), Africa (South Africa,
Malawi, and Kenya), Eastern Europe (Bulgaria), as well as the developed
economies of western Europe.
Data Resources
Associates are involved in large data collection projects, including
the Mexican Health and
Aging Study (MHAS), the Health
and Retirement Study (HRS), the English
Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Salud,
Bienestar y Envejecimiento/ Health, Wellbeing and Aging in Latin
America (SABE), PROGRESA/Oportunidades
(Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación / The
Education, Health, and Nutrition Program of Mexico), NAS-NRC
Twins Registry, Labor and Social Security Survey (Chile), Early
Childhood Development Survey (Philippines) and Survey
of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
Consultations
PARC associates consult with the NIH; other federal agencies, including
the Social Security Administration
(SSA) ; the National Academy of
Sciences (NAS), Institute of Medicine
of the National Academies (IOM) and National
Science Foundation (NSF) ; United
States Department of Treasury and the Presidential
Commission to Strengthen Social Security; and international
organizations, including The International
Monetary Fund (IMF), The
World Bank Group, the Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO), the World
Health Organization (WHO),the Inter-American
Development Bank, the Asian Development
Bank and the governments of Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Japan, South Africa, and Bulgaria.
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