Courgeau, Daniel ; Bijak, Jakub ; Franck, Robert & Silverman, Eric: Model-based demography: towards a research agenda

In Agent-based modelling in population studies. Switzerland: Springer. pp. 29-51. 2017This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on the role of model-based approaches in the future demography. First we call attention to the developments of the discipline since the XVIIth century, and we describe its four successive paradigms related to the period, cohort, event-history and mutilevel perspectives. We argue that these paradigms are complementary and that demography, since its beginnings, has su