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RYAN D. EDWARDS
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Queens College and the
Graduate Center, City University of New York
and Faculty Research Associate,
National Bureau of Economic Research

redwards@qc.cuny.edu

Ph.D., Economics, U.C. Berkeley, 2002;
A.B., Public & International Affairs, Princeton University, 1996.

Curriculum Vitae: PDF

Research Interests: The economics of aging and health, macroeconomics, public finance, economic demography.

Sections below: Unpublished Working Papers | Publications

UNPUBLISHED WORKING PAPERS:

Ryan D. Edwards (2010) "Health, Income, and the Timing of Education Among Military Retirees," NBER Working Paper 15778, February.

Ryan D. Edwards (2010) "Forecasting Government Revenue and Expenditure in the U.S. Using Data on Age-Specific Utilization," National Transfer Accounts Project Working Paper WP10-01, February.

Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "The Cost of Uncertain Life Span," working paper, June, an update and expansion of NBER Working Paper 14093.

Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "Trends in World Inequality in Life Span Since 1970," working paper, May. Updated version of "Examining Variance in World Life Spans Since 1970," presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in New Orleans.

Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "American Time Use Over the Business Cycle," working paper, August.

Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Measuring Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality," working paper, June. (Previously titled "Interpreting Proportional and Additive Differences in Mortality.")

Ryan D. Edwards (2006) "Individual Perceptions of Mortality Decline," working paper, March.

Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Postwar Mortality Decline and Economic Growth in Industrialized Countries: A Puzzle," working paper, May.

Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Health Shocks and Consumption Among Elderly U.S. Households," working paper, August.

Ryan D. Edwards, Mike W. Anderson, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Carl Boe (2003) "Key equations in the Tuljapurkar-Lee model of the Social Security system," paper prepared for a roundtable on stochastic forecasts of the U.S. Social Security system, Washington, D.C., April 3.

Ryan D. Edwards, Ronald D. Lee, and Shripad Tuljapurkar (2003) "Stochastic Fiscal Projections with Cyclical and Long-Term Uncertainty," paper prepared for the Symposium on Global Income Growth in the 21st Century, Honolulu, HI, January 9-10.

Ryan D. Edwards (2003) "Budget Forecasting Methods," technical working paper, June.

Ryan D. Edwards (2002) "Risk-Taking and Differential Mortality," working paper, April.

PUBLICATIONS:

Ryan D. Edwards (2010) "Optimal Portfolio Choice When Utility Depends on Health," formerly titled "Optimal Portfolio Choice Under State-Dependent Utility," International Journal of Economic Theory 6(2), forthcoming, June.

Alair MacLean and Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "Health Disparities by Rank Among Veterans," forthcoming, Armed Forces & Society.

Ronald D. Lee, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "Uncertain Demographic Futures and Government Budgets in the U.S." in Shripad Tuljapurkar, ed., Responses to Ageing in Advanced Industrial States, New York: Springer, forthcoming. Revised version of a paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago.

Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "Review of Demographic Forecasting," forthcoming, Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "The Cost of Cyclical Mortality," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 9(1) (Contributions), Article 7.

Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Health Risk and Portfolio Choice," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 26(4): 472-485.

Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Who Is Hurt by Procyclical Mortality?" Social Science & Medicine 67(12): 2051-2058.

Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Widening Health Inequalities Among U.S. Military Retirees Since 1974," Social Science & Medicine 67(11): 1657-1668.

Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Declining mortality among British scientists during the age of enlightenment," in Alexia Prskawetz, David Bloom, and Wolfgang Lutz, eds., Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth. New York: Population Council. Supplement to Population and Development Review, March.

Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Public Transit, Obesity, and Medical Costs: Assessing the Magnitudes," Preventive Medicine 46(1), 14-21, January.

Ryan D. Edwards and Shripad Tuljapurkar (2005) "Inequality in Life Spans and a New Perspective on Mortality Convergence Across Industrialized Countries," Population and Development Review 31(4), 645-675, December.

Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Commentary: Work, Well-Being, and a New Calling for Countercyclical Policy," International Journal of Epidemiology, 10.1093/ije/dyi142, August 22.

Ryan D. Edwards (2004) "Macroeconomic Implications of the Earned Income Tax Credit," National Tax Journal 57, March, 45--65.

Ronald D. Lee, Timothy Miller, and Ryan D. Edwards (2003) The Growth and Aging of California's Population: Demographic and Fiscal Projections, Characteristics, and Service Needs, a Special Report of the California Policy Research Center, University of California, Technical Assistance Program.

Ronald D. Lee and Ryan D. Edwards (2002) "The Fiscal Effects of Population Aging in the US: Assessing the Uncertainties," James M. Poterba, ed., Tax Policy and Economy v.16 (NBER: MIT Press, 2002) pp. 141-181.

Ronald D. Lee and Ryan D. Edwards (2001) "The Fiscal Impact of Population Change," in Jane Sneddon Little and Robert K. Triest, eds., Seismic Shifts: The Economic Impact of Demographic Change. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series No. 46, pp. 220-237.


	COURSES: ECON 206, Intermediate Macroeconomics BUS 383, Business and Economic Demography ECON 71100, Macroeconomic Theory I LOCAL INTEREST: Department of Economics, Queens College, CUNY CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) The CUNY Graduate Center's Health, Labor, and Demography seminar series BLOG: Economic DeBLOGraphy, occasional writings about fertility, mortality, immigration, and economic behavior. DATASETS, STATA FILES, LATEX, BIBTEX: Data: Comma-delimited spreadsheets of the monthly and quarterly datasets used in "Macroeconomic Implications of the Earned Income Tax Credit". Last updated 8/23/02. Stata: STATA Dictionary (.dct) and Do (.do) files for the Current Resident component of the 1999 National Nursing Home Survey. The variables have mnemonic names that are unrelated to the question numbers. Variable labels are fairly descriptive. Last updated 6/24/03. STATA Dictionary (.dct) file for the travel day diary portion of the 2001 National Household Transportation Survey. Adapted directly from the SAS input file in the ICPSR distribution. Last updated 6/12/07. Bibtex: A Bibtex guide A useful walkthrough for using makebst.tex and merlin.mbs to create new .bst files that satisfy your journals! A repository of bibtex files indexed by journal title A homebrewed .bst file for the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE). Use it with natbib, and pass [comma,sort&compress] to natbib. Homebrewed .bst file for the International Journal of Economic Theory (IJET). Use it with natbib, and pass [comma,sort&compress] to natbib.		RYAN D. EDWARDS Assistant Professor of Economics, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Faculty Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research redwards@qc.cuny.edu Ph.D., Economics, U.C. Berkeley, 2002; A.B., Public & International Affairs, Princeton University, 1996. Curriculum Vitae: PDF Research Interests: The economics of aging and health, macroeconomics, public finance, economic demography. Sections below: Unpublished Working Papers \| Publications UNPUBLISHED WORKING PAPERS: Ryan D. Edwards (2010) "Health, Income, and the Timing of Education Among Military Retirees," NBER Working Paper 15778, February. Ryan D. Edwards (2010) "Forecasting Government Revenue and Expenditure in the U.S. Using Data on Age-Specific Utilization," National Transfer Accounts Project Working Paper WP10-01, February. Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "The Cost of Uncertain Life Span," working paper, June, an update and expansion of NBER Working Paper 14093. Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "Trends in World Inequality in Life Span Since 1970," working paper, May. Updated version of "Examining Variance in World Life Spans Since 1970," presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in New Orleans. Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "American Time Use Over the Business Cycle," working paper, August. Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Measuring Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality," working paper, June. (Previously titled "Interpreting Proportional and Additive Differences in Mortality.") Ryan D. Edwards (2006) "Individual Perceptions of Mortality Decline," working paper, March. Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Postwar Mortality Decline and Economic Growth in Industrialized Countries: A Puzzle," working paper, May. Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Health Shocks and Consumption Among Elderly U.S. Households," working paper, August. Ryan D. Edwards, Mike W. Anderson, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Carl Boe (2003) "Key equations in the Tuljapurkar-Lee model of the Social Security system," paper prepared for a roundtable on stochastic forecasts of the U.S. Social Security system, Washington, D.C., April 3. Ryan D. Edwards, Ronald D. Lee, and Shripad Tuljapurkar (2003) "Stochastic Fiscal Projections with Cyclical and Long-Term Uncertainty," paper prepared for the Symposium on Global Income Growth in the 21st Century, Honolulu, HI, January 9-10. Ryan D. Edwards (2003) "Budget Forecasting Methods," technical working paper, June. Ryan D. Edwards (2002) "Risk-Taking and Differential Mortality," working paper, April. PUBLICATIONS: Ryan D. Edwards (2010) "Optimal Portfolio Choice When Utility Depends on Health," formerly titled "Optimal Portfolio Choice Under State-Dependent Utility," International Journal of Economic Theory 6(2), forthcoming, June. Alair MacLean and Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "Health Disparities by Rank Among Veterans," forthcoming, Armed Forces & Society. Ronald D. Lee, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "Uncertain Demographic Futures and Government Budgets in the U.S." in Shripad Tuljapurkar, ed., Responses to Ageing in Advanced Industrial States, New York: Springer, forthcoming. Revised version of a paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago. Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "Review of Demographic Forecasting," forthcoming, Journal of the American Statistical Association. Ryan D. Edwards (2009) "The Cost of Cyclical Mortality," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 9(1) (Contributions), Article 7. Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Health Risk and Portfolio Choice," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 26(4): 472-485. Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Who Is Hurt by Procyclical Mortality?" Social Science & Medicine 67(12): 2051-2058. Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Widening Health Inequalities Among U.S. Military Retirees Since 1974," Social Science & Medicine 67(11): 1657-1668. Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Declining mortality among British scientists during the age of enlightenment," in Alexia Prskawetz, David Bloom, and Wolfgang Lutz, eds., Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth. New York: Population Council. Supplement to Population and Development Review, March. Ryan D. Edwards (2008) "Public Transit, Obesity, and Medical Costs: Assessing the Magnitudes," Preventive Medicine 46(1), 14-21, January. Ryan D. Edwards and Shripad Tuljapurkar (2005) "Inequality in Life Spans and a New Perspective on Mortality Convergence Across Industrialized Countries," Population and Development Review 31(4), 645-675, December. Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Commentary: Work, Well-Being, and a New Calling for Countercyclical Policy," International Journal of Epidemiology, 10.1093/ije/dyi142, August 22. Ryan D. Edwards (2004) "Macroeconomic Implications of the Earned Income Tax Credit," National Tax Journal 57, March, 45--65. Ronald D. Lee, Timothy Miller, and Ryan D. Edwards (2003) The Growth and Aging of California's Population: Demographic and Fiscal Projections, Characteristics, and Service Needs, a Special Report of the California Policy Research Center, University of California, Technical Assistance Program. Ronald D. Lee and Ryan D. Edwards (2002) "The Fiscal Effects of Population Aging in the US: Assessing the Uncertainties," James M. Poterba, ed., Tax Policy and Economy v.16 (NBER: MIT Press, 2002) pp. 141-181. Ronald D. Lee and Ryan D. Edwards (2001) "The Fiscal Impact of Population Change," in Jane Sneddon Little and Robert K. Triest, eds., Seismic Shifts: The Economic Impact of Demographic Change. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series No. 46, pp. 220-237.