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. Aspects of the subject include: marriage and fertility the family divorce morbidity and life expectancy/mortality dependency ratios migration population growth population size public policy the demographic transition from "population explosion" to (dynamic) stability or decline. Other subfields include measuring 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. NOTOC The Journal of Economic Literature classification codes are a way of categorizing subjects in economics. There, demographic economics is paired with labour economics as one of 19 primary classifications at JEL: J. It has eight subareas: General Demographic Trends and Forecasts Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination Value of life; Foregone Income Public Policy 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.

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