LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Authors: Kalabikhina Irina 
Published: March 2020

Dear Readers and Authors!This is the first issue of the new scientific digital journal &quot;Population and Economics&quot;.Continuing the traditions of Professor Dmitry Ignatievich Valentey&#39;s university&nbsp;demographic school, we have planned to make an interdisciplinary journal&nbsp;devoted to the discussion of issues related to population. The subject area of the&nbsp;research, the results of which we plan to present on the pages of the journal, covers&nbsp;the research interests of disciplines such as demography, population economics,&nbsp;labor economics, social policy, behavioral economics, institutional economics,&nbsp;macroeconomics, marketing research, socio-economic geography, economic&nbsp;sociology and other disciplines. It seems that it is at interdisciplinary crossroads&nbsp;of different sciences that the discoveries in the coming decades will be made.&nbsp;The Journal welcomes the use of various research methods &ndash; methods of&nbsp;demographic analysis and forecasting, econometric and other mathematical&nbsp;methods, quantitative and qualitative sociological methods, as well as ones&nbsp;from other sciences. An interdisciplinary approach involves the mutual usage of&nbsp;methods from different sciences.An important feature of the modern scientific reality is an unprecedented&nbsp;increase in the volume of information and data on population. This broadens&nbsp;the possibilities of analysis and simultaneously requires the creation of a culture&nbsp;of data exchange. I mean data formed by the authors for the research purpose,&nbsp;to continue dialogue on the issue raised and to involve young researchers in this&nbsp;dialogue. Therefore, we encourage authors to place their working databases and&nbsp;author codes in open access on the pages of our journal.The journal opens various sections. Apart original articles, we will publish&nbsp;a methodical section for teachers &quot;The Teacher&#39;s Podium&quot;. And &quot;Demographic calendar&quot; on the most important events and people in the world of population&nbsp;sciences. In the &quot;Reviews&quot; section we plan to present the most discussed scientific&nbsp;works. There will be a &quot;Discussions&quot; section on the pages of which we invite&nbsp;scientists to argue about unresolved theoretical issues and new methods, and&nbsp;other sections.The first issue of the magazine offers to your attention, dear readers, theoretical&nbsp;and empirical research on relevant subjects, performed by authors with the usage&nbsp;of various methods. The &quot;Teacher&#39;s Podium&quot; and &quot;Demographic calendar&quot; are&nbsp;open.We invite researchers from different regions of Russia and other countries&nbsp;to argue, publish their scientific results, share created databases, methods of&nbsp;teaching sciences on the population.&nbsp;We invite readers interested in the issues raised on the pages of our journal&nbsp;to attentive reading and cooperation with editors and authors.I would like to wish all of us a valuable journal and the pleasure of creating&nbsp;and reading the materials in the journal&#39;s section &quot;Population and Economics&quot;.