Demographic economics

Demographic economics or population economics is the application of economic analysis to demography, the study of human populations, including size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.^[1][2]

Aspects of the subject include

• marriage and fertility^{[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}
• the family^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]}
• divorce^[18][19][20]
• morbidity^[21] and life expectancy/mortality^[22][23][24]
• dependency ratios^{[1][3][25][26][27]}
• migration^[28][29][30]
• population growth^{[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]}
• population size^[39][40][41]
• public policy^{[1][42][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]}
• the demographic transition from "population explosion" to (dynamic) stability^[49] or decline.^[50][51][52]

Other subfields include measuring value of life^[53][54] and the economics of the elderly^[55][56][57] and the handicapped^[58][59][60] and of gender,^[61][62][63] race, minorities, and non-labor discrimination.^[64][65] In coverage and subfields, it complements labor economics^[66][67] and implicates a variety of other economics subjects.^[68][69][70]

Subareas

The Journal of Economic Literature classification codes are a way of categorizing subjects in economics. There, Demographic Economics is paired with Labor Economics as one of 19 primary classifications at JEL: J.^[71] It has 8 subareas, which are listed below with JEL-code links to corresponding available article-preview links of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008) Online:

JEL: J10 (all) – General

JEL: J11 – Demographic Trends and Forecasts

JEL: J12 – Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure

JEL: J13 – Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

JEL: J14 – Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped

JEL: J15 – Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination

JEL: J16 – Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

JEL: J17 – Value of life; Foregone Income

JEL: J18 – Public Policy.

See also

Cost of raising a child

Family economics

Generational accounting

Growth economics

Related:

Income and fertility Demographic dividend Demographic transition

Demographic gift Demographic window Demographic trap

Preston curve Development economics

Notes

1. Kelley, Allen C.; Schmidt, Robert M. (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 655. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0428. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
2. van Praag, Bernard M. S. (1988). "The notion of population economics". Journal of Population Economics 1 (1): 5–16. doi:10.1007/bf00171507. JSTOR 20007247. PMID 12342564.
3. Foster, Andrew (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 356. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1044. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
4. Schultz, T. Paul (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 291. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0560. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
5. Galor, Oded (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 685. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0434. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
6. Adsera, Alicia (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 286. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0559. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
7. Montgomery, Mark; Trussell, James (1986). "Models of marital status and childbearing". Handbook of Labor Economics 1: 205–71. doi:10.1016/S1573-4463(86)01006-4. ISBN 978-0-444-87856-4.
8. Galor, Oded (2005). "The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth". Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2–3): 494–504. doi:10.1162/jeea.2005.3.2-3.494. JSTOR 40004992.
9. Hanushek, Eric A (1992). "The Trade-Off between Child Quantity and Quality" (PDF). Journal of Political Economy 100 (1): 84–117. doi:10.1086/261808. JSTOR 2138807.
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11. Ermisch, John (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 260. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0550. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
12. Ermisch, John (2003). An Economic Analysis of the Family. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-09667-4.
13. Becker, Gary S. (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 1. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.2528. ISBN 9780333786765. |chapter= ignored (help)
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15. Becker, Gary S. (1988). "Family Economics and Macro Behavior" (PDF). American Economic Review 78 (1): 1–13.
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22. Vaupel, James W.; Von Kistowski, Kristín G.; Rau, Roland (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 781. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1141. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
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26. Weil, David N. (May 1999). "Population Growth, Dependency, and Consumption". The American Economic Review 89 (2): 251–5. doi:10.1257/aer.89.2.251. JSTOR 117115.
27. Denton, Frank T.; Spencer, Byron G. (2010). "Population Aging and Its Economic Costs: A Survey of the Issues and Evidence". Canadian Journal on Aging 19: 1. doi:10.1017/S071498080001463X.
28. Ioannides, Yannis M.; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 544. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1772. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
29. Walker, James R. (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 421. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0824. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
30. Borjas, George J. (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 453. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0830. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
31. Lee, Ronald D. (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 512. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1309. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
32. Galor, Oded (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 109. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0755. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
33. Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. (September 2000). "Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and beyond". The American Economic Review 90 (4): 806–28. doi:10.1257/aer.90.4.806. JSTOR 117309.
34. Johnson, David Gale; Lee, Ronald Demos, eds. (1987). Population Growth and Economic Development: Issues and Evidence. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-11130-4.
35. Kelley, Allen C. (1988). "Economic Consequences of Population Change in the Third World". Journal of Economic Literature. December (4): 1685–728. JSTOR 2726858.
36. Brander, James A.; Dowrick, Steve (1994). "The role of fertility and population in economic growth". Journal of Population Economics 7 (1): 1–25. doi:10.1007/BF00160435. PMID 12287546.
37. Kremer, Michael (August 1993). "Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990". The Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (3): 681–716. doi:10.2307/2118405. JSTOR 2118405.
38. Dasgupta, Partha (December 1995). "The Population Problem: Theory and Evidence". Journal of Economic Literature 33 (4): 1879–902. JSTOR 2729316.
39. Arrow, K.; Bolin, B.; Costanza, R.; Dasgupta, P.; Folke, C.; Holling, C. S.; Jansson, B.-O.; Levin, S.; Mäler, K.-G.; Perrings, C.; Pimentel, D. (1995). "Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment". Science 268 (5210): 520–1. doi:10.1126/science.268.5210.520. PMID 17756719.
40. Cohen, J. (1995). "Population growth and earth's human carrying capacity". Science 269 (5222): 341–6. doi:10.1126/science.7618100. PMID 7618100.
41. Cohen, Joel E. (1995). How Many People Can the Earth Support?. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31495-3.
42. Currie, Janet (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 769. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0228. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
43. National Research Council (1986). Population Growth and Economic Development: Policy Questions. National Academies Press. ISBN 978-0-309-03641-2.
44. Theodore W. Schultz, 1981. Investing in People: The Economics of Population Quality, University of California Press. Description and chapter-preview links.
45. Sen, Amartya (1995). "Authoritarianism versus Cooperation" (PDF). International Lecture Series on Population Issues. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Republished as Sen, Amartya (1997). "Population policy: Authoritarianism versus cooperation". Journal of Population Economics 10: 3. doi:10.1007/s001480050029. JSTOR 20007525.
46. Birdsall, Nancy; Kelley, Allen C.; Sinding, Steven W., eds. (2001). Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-152953-5.
47. Samuelson, Paul A. (December 1958). "An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest with or without the Social Contrivance of Money". Journal of Political Economy 66 (6): 467–82. doi:10.1086/258100. JSTOR 1826989.
48. Gokhale, Jagadeesh (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 630. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0627. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
49. Tuljapurkar, Shripad (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 826. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1602. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
50. Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume (2005). "The Baby Boom and Baby Bust". American Economic Review 95: 183. doi:10.1257/0002828053828680.
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53. Kip Viscusi, W. (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 586. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1784. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
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55. Hurd, Michael (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 130. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1431. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
56. Weil, David N. (2008). "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics": 499. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1307. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. |chapter= ignored (help)
57. Clark, Robert Louis; Spengler, Joseph John (1998). "The Economics of Individual and Population Aging". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22883-1.
58. Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc (2006). "Applications". Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity 2: 1465. doi:10.1016/S1574-0714(06)02024-0. ISBN 9780444521453. |chapter= ignored (help)
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61. Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. (June 1996). "The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth". The American Economic Review 86 (3): 374–87. JSTOR 2118202.
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64. Sowell, Thomas (1975). Race and Economics. McKay.
65. Sowell, Thomas (1995). Race and Culture: A World View. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-06797-8.
66. JEL classification codes#Labor and demographic economics JEL: J Subcategories.
67. Labor and Demographic Economics: Demographic Economics, NBER Working Paper abstract links from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
68. Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka, 1996. Population Economics. MIT Press. Description & chapter previews.
69. Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Stark, Oded (1997). "Handbook of Population and Family Economics Volume 1". Handbook of Population and Family Economics 1: 1. doi:10.1016/S1574-003X(97)80018-9. ISBN 9780444826459. |chapter= ignored (help)
70. Search of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online, "population OR demography".
71. Of which a complete list for JEL: J with corresponding Wikipedia links is at JEL classification codes#Labor and demographic economics JEL: J Subcategories.

References

• John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, ed. ([1987] 1989. Social Economics: The New Palgrave, pp. v-vi. Arrow-page searchable links to entries for:

"Ageing Populations," pp. 1-3, by Robert L. Clark

"Declining Population," pp. 10-15, by Robin Barlow

"Demographic Transition," pp. 16-23, by Ansley J. Coale

"Extended Family," pp. 58-63, by Oliva Harris

"Family," pp. 65-76, by Gary S. Becker

"Fertility," pp.77-89, by Richard A. Easterlin

"Gender," pp. 95-108, by Francine D. Blau

"Race and Economics," pp. 215-218, by H. Stanback

"Value of Life," pp.289-76, by Thomas C. Schelling

• Nathan Keyfitz, 1987. "demography," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 1, pp. 796–802.
• T. Paul Schultz, 1981. Economics of Population. Addison-Wesley. Book review.
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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.
• Review of Economics of the Household