Family Matters: Demographic Change and Social Spending in Indonesia

Social Implications of Demographic Change

Declining population as well as population aging has substantial impacts on the economy and on the society. By contrast, the size of the population usually does not matter for economic development, if it is stable; Switzerland and Sweden, for example, are rich countries with fewer than 10 million people. However, the process of declining does matter, particularly when it is accompanied by a sig...

Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings.

In theory, improvements in healthy life expectancy should generate increases in the average age of retirement, with little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent retirement ages from keeping pace with changes in life expectancy, leading to an increased need for life-cycle savings. Analyzing a cross-country panel of macroeco...

Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society, and: Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches (review)

Investing in Others: Prosocial Spending for (Pro)Social Change

Imagine the following: It is a Saturday morning in December and you have decided to have breakfast at your local diner. You take a seat in a booth by the window and order the usual – a mushroom and cheese omelet with a side of hash browns and a coffee. As you enjoy your omelet, you consider your plans for the day. You have a long list of errands to attend to before heading to a friend’s place t...

Explaining Health Inequalities in Three Mega- Urban Regions in Indonesia Undergoing Rapid Demographic Change and Decentralization

Indonesia’s rapidly growing mega-urban regions of Jabotabek (Jakarta Extended Metropolitan Region), Bandung and Surabaya each have a large socially and economically heterogeneous population. As a result, substantial spatial and socio-economic inequalities in child mortality risk exist. A means for policy makers to address these differentials is to increase the utilization of trained birth assis...