eprintid: 13856 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 5 dir: disk0/00/01/38/56 datestamp: 2016-10-03 08:49:42 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:41:36 status_changed: 2016-10-03 08:49:42 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 1 creators_name: Prskawetz, A. creators_id: 2025 title: The role of social interactions in demography: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach ispublished: pub divisions: prog_pop abstract: Individual demographic behaviour cannot be understood in isolation from the social network one is linked to. However, formal models of demographic behaviour lag behind the empirical evidence. In this chapter we demonstrate how agent-based models can be applied to investigate the role of social interactions to explain macro-level demographic patterns like the age-at-marriage curve, age-specific fertility rates and the role of family policies for fertility. Based on these three examples we discuss the various steps that need to be followed when building up an agent-based model. These include the choice of the characteristics and rules of the agents together with the definition of how agents may interact and how macroeconomic behaviour may feed back on the micro-level decision processes. date: 2016 date_type: published publisher: Springer International Publishing id_number: 10.1007/978-3-319-32283-4_3 creators_browse_id: 100 full_text_status: none series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis volume: 41 place_of_pub: Cham, Switzerland pagerange: 53-72 refereed: TRUE isbn: 978-3-319-32283-4 issn: 1389-6784 book_title: Agent-Based Modelling in Population Studies coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart citation: Prskawetz, A. (2016). The role of social interactions in demography: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach. In: Agent-Based Modelling in Population Studies. pp. 53-72 Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-32283-4 10.1007/978-3-319-32283-4_3 .