Journal of Population Economics

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.