Ined’s research unit of Economic Demography

The Economic Demography research unit (UR9) is one of the 11 research units of the National Institute of Demographic Studies. It brings together economists, demographers and sociologists analyzing the economic determinants and consequences of demographic behavior. The research work of this unit is characterized by the mobilization of economic theories and the use of quantitative methods (econometrics, methods of evaluating public policies).

The themes covered deal with marital behavior, fertility, educational and professional pathways, links between spatial disparities and socio-economic trajectories, intergenerational transfers and dependence. The unit’s researchers analyze, in particular, the processes explaining disparities in salaries, careers, assets and standards of living between women and men and according to other socio-demographic characteristics. They study how demographic events (such as a birth, a marital separation or the end of a working life) contribute to the formation of these disparities and their evolution over the life cycle.

The unit’s work also aims to quantify the effects of public policy measures (social, family, tax, education, employment) or business on individual or family behavior.