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

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 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.

Subareas

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:

Journals

Demography –
Journal of Population Economics – and , 2006.
Population and Development Review –
Population Bulletin – Each issue on a
Population Studies —
''Review of Economics of the Household''