  This paper is devoted to study measure solutions $\mu_t^h$ to perturbed
nonlinear structured population models where $t$ denotes time and $h$ controlls
the size of perturbation. We address differentiability of the map $h \mapsto
\mu_t^h$. After showing that this type of results cannot be expected in the
space of bounded Radon measures $\mathcal{M}(\mathbb{R}^+)$ equipped with the
flat metric, we move to the slightly bigger spaces $Z =
\overline{\mathcal{M}(\mathbb{R}^+)}^{(C^{1+\alpha})^*}$. We prove that when
$\alpha > \frac{1}{2}$, the map $h \mapsto \mu_t^h$ is differentiable in $Z$.
The proof exploits approximation scheme of a nonlinear problem from previous
studies and is based on the iteration of an implicit integral equations
obtained from study of the linear equation. The result shows that space $Z$ is
a promising setting for optimal control of phenomena governed by such type of
models.
