Elizabeth Wrigley-FieldJan 15, 2023

Demographers:

I'm reprepping my Population Modeling (demographic techniques) grad class & would love inspiration as I cycle out the articles I'm bored with

What's an empirical application of demographic methods (any demographic methods!) that you love thinking about?

Bonus if it's an unusual substantive focus for demography

(Especially please share your favorite use of demographic decomposition techniques, bc I'm definitely tired of that week!)

#demography #PopMastodon #PopulationModeling

Show threadJonathan HorowitzJan 15, 2023
@wrigleyfield I have no recommendations but I would love to see a list of what you cover, or syllabi in previous years.
Show threadElizabeth Wrigley-FieldJan 15, 2023
@jonathanhorowi1 I can send a syllabus when not on my phone, or post the new one here when I have it. The general organization is:
- intro (2 weeks): broad framework for how demographic concepts can help make sense of really big questions in social change & inequality
- populations as a social unit (2w). Population growth and how it shapes other outcomes
- cohorts as a social unit (3w). This is where we do the stuff most start w
- putting cohorts and periods together (3w)
- demog as theory (4w)
Show threadWen SU

@wrigleyfield @jonathanhorowi1

On the topic of putting cohort and period together. If I may ask are you planning on teaching anything related to CAL? I really like this paper on decomposition of CAL.
Reference: Canudas-Romo & Guillot 2015.

Jan 16, 2023 at 9:25amWeb
Show threadElizabeth Wrigley-FieldJan 16, 2023
@Weeeen_S @jonathanhorowi1
I’m definitely going to teach something CAL-related, but I’m not sure yet which paper I’ll assign. I was thinking maybe Guillot and Payne’s article on lagged cohort life expectancy. But your suggestion’s also a very good one.