Application of economic analysis to demography
Demographic economics orpopulation economics is the application ofeconomic analysis todemography , the study of humanpopulations , includingsize ,growth ,density ,distribution , andvital statistics .[ 1] [ 2]
Aspects of the subject include:
Other subfields include measuringvalue 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 complementslabor economics [ 66] [ 67] and implicates a variety of other economics subjects.[ 68] [ 69] [ 70]
TheJournal of Economic Literature classification codes are a way of categorizing subjects in economics. There, demographic economics is paired withlabour economics as one of19 primary classifications at JEL: J.[ 71] 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 IncomePublic Policy Related:
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