Faculty profiles

Members of the Economics Department

Ronald D. Lee

Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Family Professor Emeritus of Economics; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Demography; Associate Director, Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA)

Fields
Demography
Current Status
Emeritus
PhD
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1971
Research Interests
Long-run demographic and fiscal stochastic forecasting; intergenerational transfers; macro consequences of population aging; social security; evolutionary theory of the life cycle; population and economic development

About Ronald D. Lee

Professor Ronald D. Lee holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He spent a postdoctoral year at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED, France). After teaching for eight years at the University of Michigan, he joined Demography at Berkeley in 1979, with a joint appointment in Economics. He currently holds the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Endowed Chair in Economics. Professor Lee is also the Director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging at Berkeley.Professor Lee is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding member of the British Academy. His other honors include Presidency of the Population Association of America and its Mindel C. Sheps Award for research in Mathematical Demography, and the Irene B. Taeuber Award for outstanding contributions in the field of demography. He also has chaired the population and social science study section for NIH and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population and has served on the National Advisory Committee on Aging. He is currently on the National Advisory Committee on Child Health and Human Development.