Most of the demographers emerged from it with a new appreciation of the difficulties that we face in interpreting historical data for present-day concerns.
Both economists and demographers have recognized that many of these variables are endogenous and may mask the true causal relationships.
While predominantly a quantitative discipline, demographers have also embraced other methods to study particular problems.
One could wish that more demographers did likewise.
Population migration has been studied for over a century by economists, sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, population geographers and biologists.
European historical demographers have begun to question the longer-term significance of demographic crises.
She enjoyed a distinguished career as physician, biostatistician, and demographer, applying mathematics and statistics to studies in these areas.
Yet demographers seldom seem to address this theoretical di-culty.
