The Demographic Future of Humanity: Some Economic Implications

School of Public Policy Economic Seminar Series

The School of Public Policy is honored to host Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Humanity's fertility has fallen below replacement level for the first time in history.   This is the most critical economic challenge of the 21st century and, for many countries like the U.S., an existential crisis.

At this lecture Fernández-Villaverde will examine the data and economic consequences of this rapid fertility decline. 

Lunch will be provided to all registered guests.

Speaker

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is the Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as Director of the Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets and co-director of the Business, Economic, and Financial History Project. He is also a Visiting Professor at Cambridge University a fellow at Collegium Institute, a non-resident fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas Austin, and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Economic Policy Research. He is also a fellow of the Econometric Society.

He is editor of the International Economic Review. In the past, he has served on the editorial board of several other learned journals, and he currently serves as an officer in several academic societies.

He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies, and edited and co-authored several books.

His research focuses on macroeconomics, econometrics, and economic history. Among other topics, he is interested in the role of monetary and fiscal policy, the sources of economic growth, the importance of the rule of law, and the foundations of market economies.