Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography - Agency, Complexity and Uncertainty in Migration Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models of international migration - one of the most uncertain population processes and a top-priority policy area. The book discusses in detail the process of building a simulation model of migration, based on a population of intelligent, cognitive agents, their networks and institutions, all interacting with one another. The proposed model-based approach integrates behavioural and social theory with formal modelling, by embedding the interdisciplinary modelling process within a wider inductive framework based on the Bayesian statistical reasoning. Principles of uncertainty quantification are used to devise innovative computer-based simulations, and to learn about modelling the simulated individuals and the way they make decisions. The identified knowledge gaps are subsequently filled with information from dedicated laboratory experiments on cognitive aspects of human decision-making under uncertainty. In this way, the models are built iteratively, from the bottom up, filling an important epistemological gap in migration studies, and social sciences more broadly.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Methodos Series, 17
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Jakub Bijak
Contributors:	Philip A. Higham • Jason Hilton • Martin Hinsch • Sarah Nurse • Toby Prike • Oliver Reinhardt • Peter W.F. Smith • Adelinde M. Uhrmacher • Tom Warnke
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	263
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-083038-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration
LSN:	3-03-083038-1
Barcode:	9783030830380

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