Mathias Lerch
EPFL ENAC IA GR-URBDEMO
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Expertise
Démographie suisse & internationale
Collecte | appariement de données | évaluation de leur qualité
Estimation démographique | projection multirégionale | modélisation statistique et spatiale
Expertise
Démographie suisse & internationale
Collecte | appariement de données | évaluation de leur qualité
Estimation démographique | projection multirégionale | modélisation statistique
2025
The Diffusion of International Migration in Cities and Rural Areas of Developing Countries
International Migration Review. 2025. DOI : 10.1177/01979183251384588.Rising International Migration of the Highly Skilled Transforms Demographic and Geographic Patterns of Flows in High‐Income Countries: The Case of Switzerland 1966–2019
International Migration. 2025. DOI : 10.1111/imig.70057.Internal Migration Over the Course of Urbanization in Developing Countries
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW. 2025. DOI : 10.1111/padr.70014.The Impact of Migration on Age Structure Conducive to Human Development Across the Urban Hierarchy
Population and Development Review. 2025. DOI : 10.1111/padr.70033.2024
Societal Upheaval and the Contraceptive Transition
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW. 2024. DOI : 10.1111/padr.12663.2023
Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019
Social Science & Medicine. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115976.The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural-urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966-2018
Population, Space, and Place. 2023. DOI : 10.1002/psp.2621.Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework
Buildings and Cities. 2023. DOI : 10.5334/bc.298.2022
Sedimentary faecal lipids as indicators of Baltic Sea sewage pollution and population growth since 1860 AD
Environmental Research. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112305.2021
International Migration And The Growth Of Zurich, 1836-1949
Population. 2021. DOI : 10.3917/popu.2103.0461.Socioeconomic development predicts a weaker contraceptive effect of breastfeeding
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2021. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2025348118.2020
International Migration and City Growth in the Global South: An Analysis of IPUMS Data for Seven Countries, 1992–2013
Population and Development Review. 2020. DOI : 10.1111/padr.12344.The emergence of birth limitation as a new stage in the fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa
Demographic Research. 2020. DOI : 10.4054/DemRes.2020.42.30.The Emergence and Diffusion of Birth Limitation in Urban Areas of Developing Countries
20202019
Regional variation in the rural-urban fertility gradient in the developing world
PLOS ONE. 2019. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0219624.2018
Fertility Decline in Urban and Rural Areas of Developing Countries
Population and Development Review. 2018. DOI : 10.1111/padr.12220.Fertility and union formation during crisis and societal consolidation in the Western Balkans
Population Studies. 2018. DOI : 10.1080/00324728.2017.1412492.Mortality during heat episodes in Switzerland: A story of vulnerability
Building bridges. Scholars, history and historical demography; Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers, 2018.2017
On the plausibility of socioeconomic mortality estimates derived from linked data: a demographic approach
Population Health Metrics. 2017. DOI : 10.1186/s12963-017-0143-3.International migration and city growth
2017Periurbanization and the Transformation of the Urban Mortality Gradient in Switzerland
Population-E. 2017.Enseignement et PhD
Doctorant·es actuel·les
Wenxiu Du, Dorothee Beckendorff
Cours
Border Forensics
PENS-318
Le cours présentera différentes formes de violence des frontières étatiques et sociales, en se concentrant sur des situations en Suisse, et la manière dont l'analyse spatiale, géostatistique et la conception architecturale peuvent être utilisées pour documenter et contester cette violence.
Urban demography
AR-507
Ce cours introduit les fondements théoriques et les tendances empiriques de la transformation des populations des villes dans le monde et discute les interactions avec le développement durable. Les étudiants apprendront à identifier des profils sociodémographiques des villes afin de mieux les servir