Journal of Population Economics

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Population Economics is a highly cited international quarterly that publishes original theoretical and applied research with significant policy relevance. Covering issues with challenging demographic contexts, its articles provide individual, household, firm, economy-wide and societal perspectives. A focus on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is particularly welcome. Individual, household or family studies cover partnership formation, divorce, fertility, education, work, migration, health, conflict, violence, risky behavior and aging. Macro topics include economic growth with exogenous or endogenous populations, population policy, savings, pensions, social security, housing, and health care. Societal challenges of interest include gender issues, wellbeing and happiness, sexuality, abortion, religion, poverty, inequality, war, peace and refugees. Firm-related topics include personnel economics and management, skilled labor recruitment, working from home, diversity, robots and artificial intelligence. Studies from business, other social sciences, medicine and related fields like human biology, development, history, and public choice are considered.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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