Laboratory

Digital and Computational Demography

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

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The global spread of Internet, social media, and digital technologies is radically transforming the way we live and communicate, is creating new challenges and opportunities for our societies, and is enabling social scientists to address longstanding demographic research questions in new ways.   Detailed Description

Selected Publications

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Aref, S.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Grow, A.; Negraia, D. V.; Zagheni, E.:

Demography in the digital era: new data sources for population research

In: Smart statistics for smart applications : book of short papers SIS2019, 23–30. Pearson. (2019)    

Estiri, H.; Zagheni, E.:

Age matters: ageing and household energy demand in the United States

Energy Research and Social Science 55, 62–70. (2019)    

Stewart, I. B.; Flores, R. D.; Riffe, T.; Weber, I.; Zagheni, E.:

Rock, rap, or reggaeton?: assessing Mexican immigrants' cultural assimilation using Facebook data

In: Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference WWW 2019: May 13-17, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, 3258–3264. New York: ACM. (2019)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Blood is thicker than bloodshed: a genealogical approach to reconstruct populations after armed conflicts

Demographic Research 40:23, 627–656. (2019)    

Nomes, E.; Grow, A.; van Bavel, J.:

The mid-twentieth century Baby Boom and the role of social influence: an agent-based modelling approach

Historical Life Course Studies 8, 1–26. (2019)