Andrew Mason is the 2025 recipient of the Robert J. Lapham award, bestowed biannually in recognition for contributions through the application of demographic knowledge to policy issues. The award cited the widely adopted framework used to quantify how members of each generation acquire and use economic resources. The framework, National Transfer Accounts (NTA), has been adopted by the UN and researchers and governments in over 100 countries. NTA is being used to analyze the impact of the demographic dividend in low and middle-income countries, particularly in Africa, and the impact of aging in advanced countries. NTA has also recently been applied to assess the economic impact of aging in Hawaii.
