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RYAN D. EDWARDS
Assistant Professor of Economics
Queens College - CUNY

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: Papers | Publications

PAPERS:

Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Who Is Hurt by Procyclical Mortality?" working paper, August.

Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Interpreting Proportional and Additive Differences in Mortality," working paper, July.

Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Public Transit, Walking, and Health: Assessing the Magnitudes," working paper, June.

Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "The Cost of Uncertain Life Span," working paper, August.

Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "The Cost of Cyclical Mortality," working paper, April.

Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Optimal Portfolio Choice Under State-Dependent Utility," working paper, February.

Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Health Risk and Portfolio Choice," forthcoming, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.

Ryan D. Edwards (2006) "Widening Health Inequalities Among U.S. Military Retirees Since 1974" working paper, October.

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

Ryan D. Edwards and Alair MacLean (2005) "Health and Rank Among Veterans: Early Results on Cohort and Age/Time Effects," working paper, October.

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

Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Differential Mortality Decline by Pay Grade Among U.S. Military Retirees, 1974--2003 and Projections to 2050," working paper, February.

Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Are the Wise Also Wizened? Population Aging and Knowledge Production," paper prepared for the Symposium on Population Ageing and Economic Productivity, Vienna, AUT, December 2-4, 2004. Revised October 6, 2005.

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

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

PUBLICATIONS:

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.

Ronald D. Lee, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Ryan D. Edwards (2004) "Uncertain Demographic Futures and Government Budgets in the U.S." To appear in S. Tuljapurkar and N. Ogawa (Eds.), Population Aging in the Industrialized Countries: Challenges and Responses.

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: CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) BLOG: Economic DeBLOGraphy, occasional writings about fertility, mortality, immigration, and economic behavior. DATASETS & STATA FILES: 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 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.		RYAN D. EDWARDS Assistant Professor of Economics Queens College - CUNY 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: Papers \| Publications PAPERS: Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Who Is Hurt by Procyclical Mortality?" working paper, August. Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Interpreting Proportional and Additive Differences in Mortality," working paper, July. Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Public Transit, Walking, and Health: Assessing the Magnitudes," working paper, June. Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "The Cost of Uncertain Life Span," working paper, August. Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "The Cost of Cyclical Mortality," working paper, April. Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Optimal Portfolio Choice Under State-Dependent Utility," working paper, February. Ryan D. Edwards (2007) "Health Risk and Portfolio Choice," forthcoming, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Ryan D. Edwards (2006) "Widening Health Inequalities Among U.S. Military Retirees Since 1974" working paper, October. Ryan D. Edwards (2006) "Individual Perceptions of Mortality Decline," working paper, March. Ryan D. Edwards and Alair MacLean (2005) "Health and Rank Among Veterans: Early Results on Cohort and Age/Time Effects," working paper, October. Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Postwar Mortality Decline and Economic Growth in Industrialized Countries: A Puzzle," working paper, May. Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Differential Mortality Decline by Pay Grade Among U.S. Military Retirees, 1974--2003 and Projections to 2050," working paper, February. Ryan D. Edwards (2005) "Are the Wise Also Wizened? Population Aging and Knowledge Production," paper prepared for the Symposium on Population Ageing and Economic Productivity, Vienna, AUT, December 2-4, 2004. Revised October 6, 2005. 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 (2002) "Risk-Taking and Differential Mortality," working paper, April. Ryan D. Edwards (2003) "Budget Forecasting Methods," technical working paper, June. PUBLICATIONS: 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. Ronald D. Lee, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Ryan D. Edwards (2004) "Uncertain Demographic Futures and Government Budgets in the U.S." To appear in S. Tuljapurkar and N. Ogawa (Eds.), Population Aging in the Industrialized Countries: Challenges and Responses. 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.