Delivered at:: Department of Demography (Vishnevsky Institute of Demography)

Course type:: Compulsory course

When:: 1 year, 1, 2 module

Instructors

Зинина Ангелина Игоревна

Shchur, Aleksey

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The course is devoted to the role of demography in the system of social studies and the relations between demographic and social economic processes. The aim of the course is to give the student the main ideas of demographic processes, methods of data collection, and data analysis, current approaches and techniques in demographic analysis (f.e. standardization, basic models and life tables) and the interpretation of the demographic results as well as their intake in decision making process. The discipline is an obligatory two modules course for first-year students of the Master Program with specialization at ‘Population and Development’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The discipline is taught in English. The prerequisites are the basics knowledge of mathematics, statistics, geography, economics and social sciences.

Learning Objectives

- the students will understand the nature of demographic processes and their principles, as well as the reasons for the demographic structures and their consequences
- the students will understand the nature of demographic processes and their principles, as well as the reasons for the demographic structures and their consequences The students will be able to interpret demographic factors and measures, estimate the demographic situation in the country and the region, explain the dynamics of population (quantity and structures) The students will get the skills of basic demographic analysis
The students will be able to interpret demographic factors and measures, estimate the demographic situation in the country and the region, explain the dynamics of population (quantity and structures)
The students will get the skills of basic demographic analysis

Expected Learning Outcomes

The student understand the main adjustments in demographic analysis and the role of structures and the cohorts
The student understand the methods and validity of demographic forecasts. Also the purposes and instuments of demographic policy
The student understands the main definition of migration studies and main research problems from this topic. The role of migration in development (demographic, social, economic)
The student understands the main factors influencing fertility, the ideas of the general and total rates, cohort analysis
The students understands the main factors of mortality and morbidity, the ideas of life tables and standatrization
The students understands the origins of demography and the main definitions

Course Contents

Introduction and sources
Demographic structures and demographic analysis
Mortality and morbidity
Population policy
Fertility and nuptality
Migration

Assessment Elements

Hometask
Intermediate test
Lecture and seminar activities
Lecture and seminar activities include taking short tests in the classroom, handing in small homework assignments, and group work in the classroom.
Exam

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 2nd module
0.4 * Exam + 0.24 * Hometask + 0.16 * Intermediate test + 0.2 * Lecture and seminar activities

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

A world of populations : transnational perspectives on demography in the twentieth century, , 2017
Alho, J., & Spencer, B. D. (2005). Statistical Demography and Forecasting. New York: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=163172
Bridging the gaps : linking research to public debates and policy-making on migration and integration, , 2019
Demography, Cox, P. R., 2008
Demography. Vol.1: ., Caselli, G., 2006
Handbook on migration and security, , 2017
Household demography and household modeling, , 1995
Karabchuk, T., Kumo, K., & Selezneva, E. (2017). Demography of Russia : From the Past to the Present. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1250103
Methods and models in demography, Newell, C., 1988
The demography of Europe, , 2013
The demography of health and healthcare, Pol, L. G., 2013
The new generations of Europeans : demography and families in the enlarged European Union, , 2006
Why demography matters, Dorling, D., 2018

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Borjas George J. and Chiswick Barry R. Foundations of Migration Economics [Book] / ed. Elsner Benjamin. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Hans-Peter Kohler, Jere Behrman, & Susan Watkins. (2001). The density of social networks and fertility decisions: evidence from south nyanza district, kenya. Demography, (1), 43. https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2001.0005
Noymer, A., & Hatori, H. (2016). Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edssch&AN=edssch.oai%3aescholarship.org%2fark%3a%2f13030%2fqt2v6135jr
Ronald Lee. (1987). Population dynamics of humans and other animals. Demography, (4), 443. https://doi.org/10.2307/2061385
Vishnevsky, A., & Shcherbakova, E. (2019). Demography: Pros and Cons of Raising the Retirement Age. Journal of the New Economic Association, (2), 148. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.nea.journl.y2019i42p148.167

Authors

KOZLOV VLADIMIR ALEKSANDROVICH
TIMONIN SERGEY ANDREEVICH
SCHUR ALEKSEY EVGENEVICH
ISUPOVA OLGA GENRIKHOVNA

Master’s Programme 'Population and Development'

Demography