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The ''Journal of Population Economics'' is a quarterly
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that covers research on
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and
demographic Demography () is the statistics, statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration. Demographic analy ...
problems. It is the official journal of the European Society of Population Economics and is published by
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in collaboration with POP at
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and the Global Labor Organization. It was established in 1987 by Klaus F. Zimmermann (
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), who remains the
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.


Abstracting and indexing

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'', the journal has a 2013
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of 1.470. As of August 2013, the journal was ranked by
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74th out of 2,153 economics journals listed in ''
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Kuznets Prize

Since 1995, the journal awards the "Kuznets Prize", named after the 1971
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laureate
Simon Kuznets Simon Smith Kuznets ( ; rus, Семён Абра́мович Кузне́ц, p=sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲets; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobe ...
, a pioneer in populations economics, for the best article published in the journal. The editors judge the best papers, originally for a three-year period and since 2014 annually.


See also

* ''Demography''


References


External links

* {{Official website, http://pop.merit.unu.edu/jpop/
Springer Journal website
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