ECON4710 is the coursenumber for the master students. ECON3710 is the coursenumber for the bachelor students.
Please visite the website for ECON 3710 for information about the syllabus/reading list!
Course description
Short introduction to regression analysis, indirect estimation/stable population theory, infectious diseases, girls' excess mortality, AIDS, urbanization, migration, more about factors behind fertility decline, the impact of population growth on food production, environment and economic development
To provide knowledge about factors of importance for the mortality development and pattern, determinants of and consequences of urbanization, some important international migration streams, consequences of population growth, and (more than in the introductory course on) how fertility may be reduced. Some analytical techniques will be presented, and the students will get some experience in using them, so they may be able to do simple empirical analyses on their own later and better understand original demographic literature.