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Sunday, November 8, 2009
 
 
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Demographics
 

Population trends have long been a cornerstone of social, economic, geopolitical, and environmental concern. AEI scholars study population dynamics in the United States and abroad. This section of the website gathers together AEI research, books, and events focused on demographics.

 
Feature: Demography at the Polls

If demography is destiny, then all the more reason to pay attention to demographic trends. AEI and the Brookings Institution brought back their "Red, Blue, and Purple America" conference series on June 12 with an event on election demographic trends in the 2008 elections--and how they are shaping up for the 2010 and 2012 elections. Like last year's event, this year's conference featured leading demographers, political scientists, and analysts, who examined the electoral impact of generational changes, alterations in class and family structure, minority voting patterns, changing urban-suburban mix, and shifts in religious belief.

 

Scholars on Demographics


 
  
 
 
 
Slipping Growth
 
With few born and far too many dying, Russia is caught in a demographic straitjacket.
 
AEI People and Programs, October 30, 2009
 
This issue covers the health care debate, the Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index, the swine flu and more.
 
Understanding Black Political Apathy
 
In Kinston, North Carolina, the Department of Justice interfered in election procedure based on a wrongful allegation of discrimination.
 
Russia's Great Leap Downward
 
Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah tackle Russia's grim demographic future, and what it portends for the West.
 
 
The Increase in Leisure Inequality, 1965-2005
 
This meticulously-researched monograph examines trends in leisure inequality to present a more complete picture of prosperity in America.  
 
Prices, Poverty, and Inequality Why Americans Are Better Off Than You Think
 
Adjusting poverty measures to account for the benefits of product improvements reveals that Americans in every income group are better off than they were twenty-five years ago.  
 
The Poverty of "The Poverty Rate" Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America
 
Eberstadt contends that the defects of the current poverty rate are not only severe but irremediable.  
 
 
PAST EVENTS
 
 
This second conference about "Red, Blue, and Purple America" brings back the panelists who convened in February 2008 to discuss America's changing demographic trends and electoral landscape.
 
 
Christian Broda and David Weinstein argue that the conventional wisdom that the economic well-being of all but the wealthiest Americans has stagnated or declined over the past twenty-five years is based on misleading measurements of income and poverty.
 
 
Nicholas Eberstadt discusses his new book in which he finds that the OPR is a flawed index generating increasingly misleading numbers about poverty in the United States.