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Welcome to the economic study of us – the human population. How does the way we are born, grow, age, and die affect the economy, and how does the economy affect the way we are born, grow, age, and die? These questions take a limited view of us as human beings. The approach is materialistic. To move forward without acknowledging the limitations of this view would be dangerous. Next thing you know, we would be pricing human life in dollars without batting an eye. We do actually discuss the dollar

Chapters

• In our previous chapter we discussed the sex ratio. In Demography until recently
• In Chapter 3 we learned how to calculate the crude death rate. We divide the num
• The Life Table is a fascinating tool that provides us with an estimate of life e
• The COVID-19 pandemic which began in 2020 was a crisis. The virus was new to us;
• Governments usually exert some intentional influence on mortality, as well as on
• Let’s now explore the different fertility rates and what they have to say.
• Fertility depends on three things: opportunities for intentional or unintentiona
• While everyone knows that good governments should promote health and safety, it’
• In demography we like to predict what the population will look like in the futur
• In our previous chapter we learned how the age structure of a population changes
• The Demographic Transition poses economic and social challenges at each stage.
• In our previous two chapters we explored how the age structure of the population
• Now that we have considered the economic impact of the rate of population growth
• So far we have not studied migration. Everything we have learned can apply to an
• The family is the tiniest multi-person population of interest, the tiniest econo
• In this chapter we will combine what we have learned about calculating the numbe

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