Demographic economics

Demographic economics or population economics is the application of economics to demography, the study of human populations, including size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.

Analysis includes economic determinants and consequences of: MacArthur Foundation, also in 1997, Journal of Population Economics, 10(1), pp. 3-22. • Janet Currie, 2008. "child health and mortality," The New Palgrave Dictionary. Abstract.   • Nancy Birdsall, Allen C. Kelley, Steven W. Sinding, 2001. Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World. Oxford. Description & chapter-preview links, pp. xi-xii. • Paul A. Samuelson, 1958. "An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest with or without the Social Contrivance of Money," Journal of Political Economy, 66(6), pp. 467-82.  • Jagadeesh Gokhale, 2008. "generational accounting," The New Palgrave Dictionary. Abstract. and the
 * marriage and fertility,
 * the family, • Gary S. Becker, 1987. "family," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 2, pp. 281-86. Reprinted in, 1989), Social Economics: The New Palgrave, pp. 65-76.  • _____, 1981, Enlarged ed., 1991. A Treatise on the Family. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-90698-5. Publisher's description & links to chapter previews.   • _____, 1988. "Family Economics and Macro Behavior," American Economic Review, 78(1), pp. 1-13.   • John Ermisch, 2008. "family economics," The New Palgrave Dictionary. Abstract   • _____, 2003. An Economic Analysis of the Family, Princeton. Description, Chapter 1  "Introduction" (press +), chapter-preview links.   • Evelyn Lehrer, 2007. Religion, Economics and Demography: The Effects of Religion on Education, Work, and the Family, Routledge. 978-0-415-70194-5  Description.   • _____, 2004. “Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States,” Population and Development Review, 30(4), pp. 707-26.Pre-publication copy.
 * divorce,
 * morbidity and life expectancy/mortality,
 * dependency ratios,
 * migration,
 * population growth,
 * population size,
 * public policy, • National Research Council, 1986. Population Growth and Economic Development: Policy Questions. National Academies Press. Links to each chapter.  • Theodore W. Schultz, 1981. Investing in People: The Economics of Population Quality, University of California Press. Description and chapter-preview links.   • Amartya Sen, 1995.  "Authoritarianism versus Cooperation," pp. pp. 3-29. International Lecture Series on Population Issues, John D. and Catherine T.
 * demographic transition from "population explosion" to (dynamic) stability or decline.

Other subfields include the measuring the value of life and the economics of the elderly and the handicapped and of gender, race, minorities, and non-labor discrimination. In coverage and subfields, it complements labor economics and implicates a variety of other economics subjects.

Journals

 * Demography — Scope and links to issue contents & abstracts.
 * Journal of Population Economics — Aims and scope and 20th Anniversary statement, 2006.
 * Population and Development Review — Aims and abstract & supplement links.
 * Population Bulletin — Each issue on a  current population topic.
 * Population Studies —Aims and scope.