International Relations Sorbonne School of Economics
UFR02
1st Year Master courses
Demographic Analysis and Population Economics
B4C51415 / APE
4 ECTS
Population Economics is devoted to the search for causes and consequences of demographic
behaviour. First, how can we explain fertility, mortality, nuptiality and migration behaviours? What
are the main drivers of population heterogeneity? At the population level, how can we link population
trends and economics, in both theoretical and empirical terms? Second, demographic behaviours have
direct effects on population size and age-structure. What are the implications of current changes, given
that population growth and ageing are often considered to be among the most dramatic changes
occurring at world level, with large discrepancies between countries and continents? Demographic
analysis is based on a specific approach and applies a set of technical tools which allow us to assess
the external validity of economic results. The course will thus provide an introduction to demographic
analysis and its usefulness for Population Economics.
Session 1: Outline of the course; available websites
Session 2: population trends; population with sex and age
Session 3: Rates, risks and probabilities. Life table and related functions
Session 4: Stable populations; population dynamics
Session 5: Events and structure. Mean age in a stationary population; stock sampling; multiple events
analysis
Session 6: Population means, standardization, correlations between covariates
Session 7: decomposition; interactions; individual behaviour and population effects
Session 8: Matrix population models; data sources
Session 9: migrations; population projections
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