Research Areas
Demographic training and research at Berkeley are both interdisciplinary and eclectic. Our greatest strengths are in formal mathematical demography, economic demography, and population theory. At the same time, we are always seeking to grow intellectually and to develop new approaches to demographic questions. For example, biodemography and the demography of political violence are new growth areas at Berkeley. What follows is a list of the primary research areas of our faculty and faculty associates.
- anthropological demography (Hammel, Johnson-Hanks)
- biodemography (Lee, Tarter , Wachter, Wilmoth)
- demographic aspects of poverty and welfare (Luker, Mauldon, Raphael)
- demographic forecasting (Lee, Tuljapurkar, Wilmoth, Wachter)
- demographic microsimulation (Hammel, Wachter)
- economic demography (Card, Gertler, Lee)
- fertility and family planning (Gertler, Johnson-Hanks, Lee, Luker, Mauldon, Potts)
- fiscal demography (Auerbach, Lee)
- health and mortality (Gertler, Lee, Wachter, Wilmoth)
- historical demography (Bloemraad, deVries, Hammel, Lee, Wachter)
- immigration (Auerbach, Bloemraad, Card, Lee, Raphael)
- international demography ( Johnson-Hanks, Lee )
- mathematical and statistical demography (Goodman, Lee, Wachter, Wilmoth)
- population aging (Auerbach, Card, Gertler, Lee, McFadden, Wachter, Wilmoth, see also CEDA web pages)
- population and economic development (Gertler, Lee)
- social stratification and mobility (Hout, Lucas, Petersen)
- urban studies (Fischer, Quigley, Raphael)