Frank Denton

Biography

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
Fellow, American Statistical Association
Fellow, Royal Statistical Society

Teaching

ECON 4G03 - Winter 2012
ECON 766 - Winter 2012

Research Interests: Applied Econometrics, Population Economics, Health Economics, Consumer Economics, Energy Economics

Recent Publications

"Income Replacement in Retirement: Longitudinal Evidence from Income Tax Records", Canadian
Journal on Aging, 2011 (with Ross Finnie and Byron G. Spencer).

"Age of Pension Eligibility, Gains in Life Expectancy, and Social Policy," Canadian Public Policy, 2011 (with Byron G. Spencer).

"Exploring the Effects of Aggregation Error in the Estimation of Consumer Demand Elasticities," Economic Modelling, 2011 (with Dean C. Mountain).

"Taxing a Commodity With and Without Revenue Neutrality: An Exploration Using a Calibrated Theoretical Consumer Equilibrium Model," Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011 (with Dean C. Mountain).

"A Dynamic Extension of the Period Life Table", Demographic Research, 24(34), 831-854, June 2011 (with Byron G. Spencer).

"Demographic Developments in Canada", Online Handbook: Demography, The Berlin Institute, December 2010 (with Byron G. Spencer), (http://www.berlin-institut.org/online-handbookdemography/canada.html)

"Cohort Working Life Tables for Older Canadians," Canadian Studies in Population, 37(1-2), 175-206, Spring/Summer 2010 (with Byron G. Spencer and Christine H. Feaver).

"Chronic Health Conditions: Changing Prevalence in an Aging Population and Some Implications for the Delivery of Health Care Services," Canadian Journal on Aging, 29(1), 11-22, 2010 (with Byron G. Spencer

"Population Aging, Older Workers, and Canada's Labour Force," Canadian Public Policy, 35(4), 481-492, December 2009 (with Byron G. Spencer).

An Economic Future with Smaller Numbers: The Population and Labour Force Outlook for the Atlantic Region, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, November 2009 (with Byron G. Spencer and Christine H. Feaver).

What is Retirement? A Review and Assessment of Alternative Concepts and Measures," Canadian Journal on Aging, 28(1) 63-76, 2009 (with Byron G. Spencer).

Users and Suppliers of Physician Services: A Tale of Two Populations," International Journal of Health Services, 39(1), 189-218, 2009 (with Amiram Gafni and Byron G. Spencer).

"Age, Retirement, and Expenditure Patterns: An Econometric Study of Older Households," Atlantic Economic Journal, 34, 421-234, 2006 (with Dean C. Mountain and Byron G. Spencer).

"Errors of Aggregation and Errors of Specification in a Consumer Demand Model: A Theoretical Note," Canadian Journal of Economics, 39(4), 1398-1407,2006 (with Dean C. Mountain and Byron G. Spencer).

"Socioeconomic Influences on the Health of Older Canadians: Estimates Based on Two Longitudinal Surveys", Canadian Public Policy, 32(1). 59-83, 2006 (with Neil J. Buckley, A. Leslie Robb and Byron G. Spencer).

"Data Mining as an Industry," in Julia Campos, Neil R. Ericsson, and David F. Hendry (eds.), General-to-Specific Modeling, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, U.K., 2005 (reprinted from Review of Economics and Statistics).

"Time Series Analysis and Stochastic Forecasting: An Econometric Study of Mortality and Life Expectancy," Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18(2), 2005 (with Christine H. Feaver and Byron G. Spencer).

"Healthy Aging at Older Ages: Are Income and Education Important?" Canadian Journal on Aging, 23, 2004 (with Neil J. Buckley, A. Leslie Robb and Byron G. Spencer).

"The Transition from Good to Poor Health: An Econometric Study of the Older Population," Journal of Health Economics, 23, 1013-1034, 2004 (with Neil J. Buckley, A. Leslie Robb, and Byron G. Spencer).

"Aggregation Effects on Price and Expenditure Elasticities in a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System," Canadian Journal of Economics, 37(3), 2004 (with Dean C. Mountain).

"Requirements for Physicians in 2030: Why Population Aging Matters Less Than You May Think," Canadian Medical Association Journal, 168(12), 2003 (with Amiram Gafni and Byron G. Spencer).

"The Authors Respond," Canadian Medical Association Journal, 169(8), 2003 (with Amiram Gafni and Byron G. Spencer).

"Energy Demand with Declining Rate Schedules: An Econometric Model for the U.S. Commercial Sector," Land Economics, 79(1), 2003 (with Dean C. Mountain and Byron G. Spencer).

"Some Demographic Consequences of Revising the Definition of 'Old Age' to Reflect Future Changes in Life Table Probabilities," Canadian Journal on Aging, 21(3), 2002 (with Byron G. Spencer).

"Alternative Pasts, Possible Futures: A 'What If' Study of the Effects of Fertility on the Canadian Population and Labour Force," Canadian Public Policy, 28(3), 2002 (with Christine H. Feaver and Byron G. Spencer).

"Exploring the Effects of Population Change on the Costs of Physician Services," Journal of Health Economics, 21, 2002 (with Amiram Gafni and Byron G. Spencer).

"Income Distribution and Aggregation/Disaggregation Biases in the Measurement of Consumer Demand Elasticities," Economics Letters, 73, 2001 (with Dean C. Mountain).

"Population Change and the Requirements for Physicians: The Case of Ontario," Canadian Public Policy, 27(4), 2001 (with Amiram Gafni and Byron G. Spencer).

"How Well Does the CPI Serve as an Index of Inflation for Older Age Groups?," in Frank T. Denton, Deborah A. Fretz, and Byron G. Spencer (eds). Independence and Economic Security in Old Age, UBC Press, 2000 (with Byron G. Spencer).

Independence and Economic Security in Old Age, UBC Press, 2000 (editor, with Deborah A. Fretz and Byron G. Spencer).

"Population Aging and Its Economic Costs: A Suvery of the Issues and Evidence," Canadian Journal on Aging, 19, Supplement 1, Summer 2000 (with Byron G. Spencer).

Current Research Projects

The Age Pattern of Retirement: A Comparison of Cohort Measures (with Ross Finnie and Byron G. Spencer).

State Transition Probability Matrices for Chronic Health Conditions (with Byron G. Spencer).

Aggregation and Other Biases in the Calculation of Consumer Elasticities (with Dean C. Mountain).

The Sensitivity of Productivity Growth Rates to Measurement Error.

Analysis of Variations in the Sex Ratio at Birth (with Byron G. Spencer).

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