Demography, Demographic Modeling
Last update: 08 Dec 2024 00:41First version: 7 May 2020
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A field that is, as it were, at once a cousin to statistics and a sub-field of population biology. I started to get seriously interested in it when I got involved in a data-analysis project with historians about estimating populations from partial contemporaneous records, combined with census records at the end of the period. (I'm being cagey because we haven't published yet.) This quickly made it clear to me that I needed to know a lot more about demographic modeling...
- Recommended (very inadequate):
- Juha Alho and Bruce D. Spencer, Statistical Demography and Forecasting
- Patrick Manning, Scott Nickleach, Bowen Yi, and Brian McGill, "Demographic Models for Projecting Population and Migration: Methods for African Historical Analysis", Journal of World-Historical Information 2--3 (2014--2015): 24--39
- To read:
- Thomas K. Burch, Model-Based Demography: Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory [I like what I've read of this]
- James R. Carey and Deborah A. Roach, Biodemography: An Introduction to Concepts and Methods
- Shoumitro Chatterjee and Tom Vogl, "Escaping Malthus: Economic Growth and Fertility Change in the Developing World", American Economic Review 108 (2018): 1440--1467
- Ansley Johnson Coale, Growth and Structure of Human Populations: A Mathematical Investigation
- Tiloka de Silva and Silvana Tenreyro, "Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence", Journal of Economic Perspectives 31 (2017): 205--228
- Nathan Keyfitz and John A. Beekman, Demography Through Problems
- Nathan Keyfitz and Hal Caswell, Applied Mathematical Demography
- Emily Klancher Merchant
- Building the Population Bombb
- "Environmental Malthusianism and demography", Social Studies of Science forthcoming (2022)
- Dudley L. Poston and Leon F. Bouvier, Population and Society: An Introduction to Demography
