Mentoring can be an effective strategy in improving retention of college students and faculty from fields where historical underrepresentation has occurred. This article reviews the benefits of mentoring in higher education, and identifies com-ponents of effective mentoring strategies that promote educational and career advancement. It illustrates how effective programs can be institutionalized and scaled through consortial and national collaborations. Traditional and alterna-tive mentoring models are described through four successful programs designed to increase the academic and professional success of undergraduates, graduate students, and junior faculty. The article concludes with a set of general recom-mendations and caveats gleaned from the literature and programs reviewed.

This papers presents an analysis of the financial market effects of demographic change. We first develop a stylized overlapping generations model to derive qualitative general equilibrium predictions on the effects of demographic change on the equity premium, the return differential between a risky

Chinese economy, demographic change, labour market and economic growth JEL codes:

Mortality, birth rates and retirement play a major role in demographic changes. In most cases, mortality rates decreased in the past century without noticeable decrease in fertility rates, this leads to a significant increase in population growth. In many poor countries like Palestinian territories

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During the last decades we have experienced serious demographic changes observed in the decrease in both fertility and mortality and that led to the ageing of population. Despite the decrease in mortality is a good thing, the ageing make the current social security models ineffective on long term

and consumption. As an illustration, we apply the model quantitatively to study the impact of demographic change.

countries over the next 20–30 years, as the relative size of their working-age populations increases. Demographic change will also affect saving, investment, and capital flows, implying changes in global trade balances and asset prices. We also explore the sensitivity of the results to assumptions about

roles for men and women, both at work and at home. DOES DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE MATTER? It has been argued in previous sessions that demographic change per se does not matter, and that what matters is the social security system, which can distort the economy through its tax collections and benefit provisions

In this paper, we analyze the implications of demographic change, i.e., the aging of society, on the direction of technological change and the rate of economic growth. Taking demographic change as an exogenous event, the simple variant of Acemoglu's theory of directed technical change implies