Demography, Ethics & Public Policy (DEPP) is a website and research network for scholars interested in questions about demographic change, the family and population from both a normative and a social scientific perspective. Its main aim is to facilitate information exchange among academics tackling related questions about these issues across different disciplines and sub-disciplines.

In particular, DEPP provides a platform for sharing information about scholars' interests, research activities and online resources, so as to:

(1) Promote increased familiarity and interaction among scholars working on these topics in ethics and political philosophy on the one hand, and sociology, economics and law on the other; and

(2) Highlight points of connection between work done within various disciplines on issues involving the family, intergenerational justice, and population.


DEPP is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) project on Justice and the Family: An Analysis of the Normative Significance of Procreation and Parenthood in a Just Society, under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (Grant Agreement Number: 648610; Grant Acronym: Family Justice)
If you are a scholar working on these issues and would like to join DEPP or have suggestions about the inclusion of relevant information, please contact Luke Newberry and Chris Zhang (DEPP coordinators) here.

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