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 (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.

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:
 * 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

Journals

 * 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.
 * Review of Economics of the Household