This paper argues that migrants’ decision to bring their dependent family members shapes their consumption behavior, their choice of destination, and their sensitivity to migration barriers. We ...

Boosted by net international migration, the U.S. population grew by nearly 1% between 2023 and 2024, the fastest population growth since 2001. T he United States population grew by nearly 1.0% between ...

To development economist Lant Pritchett, "population decline" is a mild way to describe what could be a global demographic crisis. "The reaction is often 'ho-hum' as the rates [of population decline] ...

Thousands of people moved to rural America last year, causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of 2024 Census estimates. Nonmetropolitan, or ...

As the world grapples with the devastating impacts of climate change, migration is emerging as a critical issue that is shaping the global landscape. Climate change induced migration, or climate ...

A slowdown in the pace of the explosive population growth that has characterized Florida over the past few years could put the state's housing market in a "vulnerable" position, experts say, and ...

Population geography is an interdisciplinary field that examines the spatial distribution, composition and change of human populations. It integrates conventional census data with innovative ...