Laboratory

Digital and Computational Demography

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

Cesare, N.; Lee, H.; McCormick, T.; Spiro, E.; Zagheni, E.:

Promises and pitfalls of using digital traces for demographic research

Demography 55:5, 1979–1999. (2018)

Alexander, M.; Polimis, K.; Zagheni, E.:

The impact of Hurricane Maria on out-migration from Puerto Rico: evidence from Facebook data

Population and Development Review 45:3, 617–630. (2019)

Grow, A.; van Bavel, J.:

The gender cliff in the relative contribution to the household income: insights from modelling marriage markets in 27 European countries

European Journal of Population 36:4, 711–733. (2020)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

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

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

Stewart, I. B.; Flores, R. D.; Riffe, T.; Weber, I. G.; 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)

Seminar Series

The Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography hosts various kinds of seminar talks. Here, there is an overview of past lectures, in the calendar you find future events.

Past Seminar Talks