spatial demography and migration

The spatial demography research area co-ordinated by Professor Stuart Sweeney focuses on place-dependence, relative location, and interaction to gain insights into population level processes and individual- or household behavior. One intellectual thread within this tradition is multiregional mathematical demography. These models extend life tables to study the spatial and temporal evolution of multiple regional populations that are connected by age-specific migration flows. They have had a particularly strong impact in applied demography and forecasting because migration is usually the dominant component of change in subnational populations. The core insights of multiregional demography can be linked to individual-level behavior through the life course perspective and multistate hazard models. At a more general level, there has been increasing interest in accounting for space and place in individual- and household-level studies. This has been driven, in part, by the rapid diffusion and adoption of spatial `tools' and methodologies such as GIS and spatial econometrics.

Area director: Stuart Sweeney

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