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With the increasing availability of event-history data, over the past 20 years duration analysis has become the main tool for analyzing lengths of time spent in a particular economic, social or health state. Duration analysis began in the 19th Century as a tool to analyse the length of life. Nowadays, it is used for issues as diverse as the length of time till the next war, the length of unemployment spells, the duration of marriage, and the time till first childbirth.
This is a new and exciting area of econometrics that can be technically quite challenging. Given this, the workshop will be taught in two parts. On the first day, the workshop will provide participants with a basic understanding of the use and practice of duration analysis. This section of the course will introduce duration data, survey different duration models and consider the types of problems for which duration analysis is used. The second and third days will be targeted towards providing social scientists using duration analyses with an overview of the technical aspects of duration models. Participants may register either for part one (day one) for for the complete course (three days).
Dr Paul Frijters studied econometrics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, received his Ph.D. on welfare economics at the University of Amsterdam, and has been an assistant professor in the micro-econometrics group at the Free University of Amsterdam since 1998. He is visiting Melbourne University until September 2002, teaching labour economics. His work on duration analysis includes the analysis of employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation spells using large, tax-based data files of the Dutch population and structural analyses of German unemployment duration. He has various publications on the identification of duration models and their relation to discrimination and unemployment issues. His current research using duration models includes collaborative work on Australian individual and administrative event history data.
Cost of the course is $200
for part one (day one), or $500 for the three day course. Places will be allocated
according to date of receipt of application. The Course Program and Registration
Form are available for download below.
Please respond by 15 January 2002.
Download Course Program and Registration Form: 
Enquiries: Susan Lindsay,
SPEAR, Economics Program, ANU
E-mail: spear@coombs.anu.edu.au,
Tel: (02) 6125 0195
