Empirical methods Prescriptive and policy 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.
[1][2] Aspects of the subject include: Other subfields include measuring value of life[53][54] and the economics of the elderly[55][56][57] and the handicapped[58][59][60] and of gender,[61][62][63] race, minorities, and non-labor discrimination.
[64][65] In coverage and subfields, it complements labor economics[66][67] and implicates a variety of other economics subjects.
[68][69][70] 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.