Urban Demographics

Matt Hauer  and Carl Schmertmann ( both on Twitter ) have just published a new paper that promises to be a game changer in population st...

Interactive visualization of all the world's flight paths , by  Callum Prentice Chile is using mobile data to find out how an...

Jack Caldwell has passed away Urban development and air pollution: evidence from a global panel of cities The easiest way ...

The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest  via Leo Monasterio A city of Pure imagination : great visual work of  Víctor Enric...

Hotter temperatures reduce sex drive and lower birth rates, according to a recent study published as a NBER Working Paper. There is a good ...

Where do women get Maternity leave and Who pays for it Cc @simonhedlin @lisawade #maternityleave pic.twitter.com/Jv5oRSU3Dr — Urban D...

  Chris Buckley , reporting for the NYT. China will allow all couples to have two children, a Communist Party leadership meeting decided...

Fertility decisions and the escape from slavery   The effects of social interactions on fertility decline: An agent-based simulation ...

The daily routines of creative people 15 Super Thin Buildings Data-driven insights to optimize the use of public transport , by Urban En...

Contribute to a  survey on the connection between the built environment and personal health : It took me 3 minutes to answer this short q...

Via The New York Times Related Links: Economic incentives and the timing of births: evidence from the German parental benefit 4 ...

100 things we didn't know last year  (via Bernardo L Queiroz ) Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward The Economis: interactiv...

A webpage to help you Convert #Words to #Pages Urban density and climate change: a STIRPAT analysis using city-level data Using R to an...

Road pricing: What’s not to love? Top 20 things politicians need to know about science  and  Top 20 things scientists need to know about...

What if all hte ice melted? A Gray Future for the BRICs Like OCR for maps: Automating Extracting GIS Data from Scanned Maps (via @QUBDH ...

Some not so new evidence showing that the old relationship between class and birth rates has been inverted (via MR ). There is a good deb...

The world's busiest airline routes  (Rio-São Paulo ranks in second) A list of R packages, by popularity What is behind the differenc...

It is really nice to see an increasing number of good studies/publications written by/with Brazilian demographers. Here are two recent pape...

Darkened Shanghai One of the new big question marks for economic demographers Latin America has more mobile phones than people , serious...

Three papers discussing the effects of media exposure on reproductive behavior. Ferrara et al (2008). Soap Operas and Fertility: Evid...