OPR has a long and distinguished history training some of the nation’s most prominent demographers.
2021
Shuang Yo-Yo Chen
Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics
Family Size in Low-Fertility China: Determinants and Effects
Ian Lundberg
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Center for Population Research, UCLA
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, Cornell University
Research Begins with a Goal: A Framework Illustrated by Gap-Closings Estimands
Christopher Hale
Mass Migration and Social Change
Daniele Urbina Julio
When the Tables Turn: Marriage and Gender Inequality in Latin America
2020
Theresa F. Andrasfay
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California
Health Across the Life Course.
Rebecca A. Johnson
Assistant Professor, Program in Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College
Zero-Sum Rights: Student Needs, Parental Intervention, and Hidden Rationing in K-12 Education.
Hannah M. Korevaar
Research Scientist, Facebook
Spatial Demographic and Epidemiology of Measles.
Federica Querin
Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute
Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility in Western Countries.
2019
Etienne Breton
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Aging Research Center University of Pennsylvania
Modernization and Household Change in India.
Leah L. Gillion
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Education, Political Ideology, and Academic Outcomes.
Sarah A. James
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
The Role of Sleep in the Status Attainment Process.
Celeste Marin
Adjunct Professor, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
It's about Time:Improving the Measurement of Time Use in Low-Resource Settings.
Joel J. Mittleman
Tenure-Track Professor, Sociology Department, Notre Dame
LGB Youth in America's Schools: New Evidence from a Changing Context.
Emilce A. Santana
Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Can Love Conquer All? Platonic and Romantic Relationships Across Ethnoracial Lines.
2018
Cheng C. Cheng
Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University
Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision-Making in China
Angela R. Dixon
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory
The Color of Inequity: Perceptions of Discrimination in Latin America.
2017
Angelina Grigoryeva
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
Household Economies in the Context of Financialization and Population Aging.
Ayesha S. Mahmud
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Demography, University of California, Berkeley
Zitsi Mirakhur
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
With a Little Help from my Friends" Examining the Role of Peer Homophily in High School Success.
2016
Janeria A. Easley
Assistant Professor, African American Studies, Emory University
Getting a Job, Getting to Work: Hidden Inequality in Spatial Mismatch Among US Ethnoracial Groups.
Kerstin Gentsch
Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Policy Research, City University of New York
How Admission Policy Shapes College Access: Evidence from Two Sectors.
Joanne W. Golann
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, and Education, School of Education, Vanderbilt University, Peabody College
Scripting the Moves: Class, Control, and Urban School Reform.
Aaron J. Gottlieb
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work
Mass Incarceration in the United States: New Evidence on Implications and Ways Forward.
Patrick Ishizuka
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University, St. Louis
Culture or Constraints? Parenthood and the Persistence of Inequality.
Jonathan C. Tannen
Research Scientist, Manager, Facebook
Measuring Cities’ Internal Demographic Change as the Movement of Emergent Boundaries.
Saul Thorkelson
Site Director and Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bard College at Brooklyn Public Library
Amy K. Winter
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Jessica Yiu
2015
Edward Berchick
Researcher, U.S. Census Bureau
Kristin Bietsch
Data Analyst, Avenir Health
Men and Contraception in sub-Saharan Africa.
Diane Coffey
Assistant Professor of Sociology & Population Research, University of Texas, Austin
Little Women: Essays on Maternal Nutrition, Social Hierarchy and Health in India.
Dennis Feehan
Assistant Professor, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley
Lauren Gaydosh
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas, Austin
Beyond Orphanhood: Family Structure and Child Health in Tanzania.
Laura B. Nolan
Researcher, Mathematica
Three Essays on Child Health and Economic Wellbeing in Four Developing Countries.
Takudzwa Sayi
Evaluation Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relationship between Marriage and Fertility Changes in Six sub-Saharan African Counties.
Elizabeth Sully
Senior Research Scientist, The Guttmacher Institute
An Intimate Epidemic: HIV and Marriage in Rural Uganda.
Megan Todd
Public Health Scientist and Director of the CDIP Data Lab, City of Philadelphia, Department of Public Health
Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Role for Immune Function?.
2014
Naomi Sugie
Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
Finding Work: A Smartphone Study of Job Searching, Social Contact & Wellbeing After Prison.
2013
Laura Blue
Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research
Body Weight, Weight Change, and Mortality Risk.
Julia Gelatt
Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute
Immigration Status and Child Well-being in the United States.
Jayanti Owens
Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University
John Palmer
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Activity-Space Segregation: Understanding Social Divisions in Space and Time.
Michelle Phelps
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Wendy Sheldon
Director, Gynuity Health Projects
The Correlates of Postpartum Blood Loss: Examination of Means and Markers for Risk Reduction.
LaTonya J. Trotter
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
Medical Work/Nursing Work: Negotiating the Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care.
Erik Vickstrom
Senior Demographer and Group Lead, Demographic and Decennial Research, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau
The Production and Consequences of Migrant Irregularity: Senegalese in France, Italy, and Spain.
2012
Audrey Dorelien
Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Birth Seasonality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Its Determinants and Implications For Child Health.
Emily A. Marshall
Population Problems? Demographic Knowledge and Fertility in Great Britain and France, 1945-2005.
Daniel J. Schneider
Professor of Public Policy and of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Wealth and the Propensity to Marry.
2011
Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra
Director of Research and Planning, Massachusetts Parole Board
Migration and Remittances During the Period of Civil Conflict in Nepal.
Elizabeth A. Gummerson
Project Coordinator ICAP, Columbia University
In Sickness and Wealth: Three Essays on Health, Human Capital and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
Tin-chi Lin
Senior Biostatistician, Corrona, LLC
Essays on Fertility Preference, Social Change, and Living Arrangements.
Kevin O'Neil
Challenging Change: Local Policies and the New Geography of American Immigration.
Rania Salem
Silvia Heidi Ullmann
Health Statistician, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Perspectives on Social Inequality, Migration, and Health: Three Essays on Mexico.
2010
Sofya Aptekar
Immigrant Naturalization and Nation-Building in North America.
Nicholas Ehrmann
Yellow Brick Road. The Roots of Academic Underperformance in Washington D.C.
Petra Nahmias
The Social Epidemiology of Maternal Obesity in Egypt.
Analia S. Olgiati
Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Health, Mortality and Migration in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
2009
Sharon H. Bzostek
Social Fathers in Fragile Families: Prevalence, Predictors and Influence.
Valerie Lewis
Slums and Children's Disadvantage: The Case of India.
Kimberly Smith
Essays on the Determinants of Health and Mortality.
2008
Rebecca Casciano
"By Any Means Necessary": The American Welfare State and Machine Politics in Newark's North Ward.
Conrad Peter Hackett
Religion and Fertility in the United States: The Influence of Affiliation, Region, and Congregation.
Emily M. Moiduddin
Understanding the Sources of Racial and Gender Disparities in Early Childhood Aggression.
Christine Percheski
Women's Employment, Family Structure, and Social Inequality.
David Potere
Samir S. Soneji
Aging, Disability, and Continuous Time Demographic Methodology.
Christopher James Wildeman
2007
Meredith Alyce Kleykamp
Military Service and Minority Opportunity.
Jake Rosenfeld
2006
Rina Agarwala
From Work to Welfare: Informal Workers Organizations and the State in India.
Gyanendra Dhar Badgaiyan
Michelle Bellessa Frost
Texas High Schools and Precursors to Students' College Attendance.
Patrick Gerland
Anna Zajacova
Sociodemographic Factors and Health: Examination of Selected Pathways over the Lifecourse.
2005
Susan Lynn Cassels
Juan Carlos Guzman
Three Essays on High-School Educational Outcomes in Colombia.
Rebecca Lynn Katz
Rachel Tolbert Kimbro
Ying Lu
Ecological Inference Problem Revisited: Statistical Modeling in a Not so Ideal World.
Maria Estela Rivero-Fuentes
Three Essays on Migration and Inequality in Mexico.
2004
Jennifer Beam Dowd
Socioeconomic Status and Health: Testing the Pathways.
Jean Marie Tansey Knab
The Form and Function of Unmarried Families.
Ann Juanita Morning
The Nature of Race: Teaching and Learning about Human Difference.
Margaret L. Usdansky
2003
Lauren Elizabeth Hale
Healthy Aging: Physiological Correlates of Cumulative Psychosocial Experiences.
Allison Ann Hedley
A New Approach to Estimating the Efficacy of Medical Abortion.
Cynthia Anne Osborne
Investigating Family Structure and Mothering Behaviors as Pathways to Child Well-Being.
James Michael Scully
2002
Marion Wigby Carter
Marcia Caldas de Castro
Kristen Sue Harknett
Single Parents and the Rationale for Marriage.
Catherine Taft Kenney
Household Economics: Money Management in Resource Allocation among Married and Cohabiting Parents.
S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Voters from Different Shores: Electoral Participation in Immigrant America.
James Patrick Vere
2001
Dana Ann Glei
The Integration of Traditional and Biomedical Care during Pregnancy and Birth in Rural Guatemala.
2000
Scott Andrew Fritzen
Deborah Lynn Garvey
1999
Jessica Lil Baraka
The Impact of Education and Gender on the Labor Market in Taiwan.
Shelley Dawn Clark
Demographic Outcomes of Son Preference: Evidence from India.
Judith Ann Diers
Efficacy of a Stage-Based Counseling Intervention to Reduce the Risk of HIV in Women.
Michele Gragnolati
Children's Malnutrition in Rural Guatemala: A Multilevel Statistical Analysis.
Radha Jagannathan
New Jersey's Family Cap and Fertility Behavior: Are Impacts Racially Conditioned?.
Becky Marie Pettit
Navigating Networks and Neighborhoods: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility of the Urban Poor.
1998
Diana Lauren Greene
Contraceptive Use for Birth Spacing in Sub-Saharan Africa.
1997
Rachel Beth Weinstein
The Medical and Economic Determinants of Cesarean Delivery in California.
Hongxin Zhao
Children of Teenage Mothers: What Determines Their Resilience?.
1996
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
Cynthia Channing Harper
From Playpen to Federal Pen: Family Instability and Youth Crime.
1995
Haishan Fu
Health-Related Behavior and Marriage Selection: New Perspectives on an Old Question.
1994
Lakshminarayan Sastry
1993
Charlotte Ellertson
Naomi Rutenberg
The Estimation of Fecundability from Survey Data on Coital Frequency.
Jennifer Strickler
Contraceptive Risk-Taking and Contraceptive Failure Among Users of Female Barrier Methods.
Mark VanLandingham
Jun Zhu
A Model of Age Patterns of Births by Parity in Natural Fertility Populations.
1992
Rose Li
Barbara Okun
How Much Can Indirect Estimation Techniques Tell Us About Marital Fertility Control.
Laura Louise Rudkin-Miniot
Gender Differences in Well-Being among the Elderly of Java, Indonesia.
Victoria Velkoff
Trends and Differentials in Infant Mortality in the Soviet Union for the Years 1970-1988.
1991
Laurence Grummer-Strawn
A Cross-National Comparison of Breast-Feeding Differentials in Low-Income Countries.
Guang Guo
Yuanreng Hu
Mortality Differentials by Marital Status: A Comparative Analysis.
1990
Irma Elo
Female Education and the use of Maternal and Child Health Care Services in Peru.
Kathryn Kost
Contraceptive Discontinuation in Peru: Patterns and Demographic Implications.
1989
David Jeremy Fein
Shaomin Li
China's Population Policy: A Model of a Constant Stream of Births.
Kia Inta Reinis
1988
Sajeda Amin
Jane Mauldon
The Effect of Marital Disruption on Children's Health.
John Richard Wilmoth
On the Statistical Analysis of Large Arrays of Demographic Rates.
1987
Eduard R. Bos
The Demographic Characteristics of Children of Divorce.
Charles Rohr Hammerslough II
Correcting Survey-Based Contraceptive Failure Rates for Abortion under-Reporting.
1986
Anouch Chahnazarian
Determinants of the Sex Ratio at Birth.
Lea Keil Garson
The Centenarian Question: Old-Age Mortality in the Soviet Union, 1897 to 1970.
Carolyn Makinson
Sex Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality in Egypt.
Paul W. Stupp
A General Procedure for Estimating an Intercensal Age Schedule.
1985
Ann Klimas Blanc
Robert Adam Feldman
An Examination of Health Status Measurement in Empirical Models of Retirement Behavior.
Ulla Margrethe Larsen
1984
Ann Meredith John
The Slave Population of Nineteenth Century Trinidad: A Demographic Analysis.
Thomas T. Kane
The Fertility of Guestworker Populations in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1983
Jill Spencer Grigsby
The Use of Contraception for Delaying and Spacing Births in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Korea.
Bart Keith Holland
Breast-Feeding and Infant Mortality: A Hazards Model Analysis of the Case of Malaysia.
Janet S. Kalwat
Barbara Sena Mensch
The Effect of Child Mortality on Contraceptive Use and Fertility in Colombia, Costa Rica and Korea.
1982
Carmen Elisa Florez-Valderrama
Joseph Alponse Gilles Grenier
Language as Human Capital: Theoretical Framework and Application to Spanish-Speaking Americans.
Claudette Yvonne Smith
1981
Neil G. Bennett
Estimation Techniques Derived from Structural Relations in Destabilized Populations.
Howard Irving Goldberg
Marital Fertility in Sri Lanka: An Assessment of World Fertility Survey Data.
Jee Peng Tan
A Comparative Study of the Marital Fertility of Older Women in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Maxine A. Weinstein
Childbearing and Marital Separation: Evidence Form the 1970 National Fertility Study.
1980
David Elliot Bloom
Essays in Labor Economics and Demography.
Margaret E. Flemming
White Ethnic Fertility in the U.S.: Convergence: 1890- 1975.
Karen Leppel
The Relations among Child Quality, Family Structure, and the Value of the Mother's Time.
Susan Cotts Watkins
Variation and Persistence in Nuptiality: Age-Patterns of Marriage in Europe, 1870-1960.
1978
Wendy K. Dobson
The Economic Determinants of Rising Age at Marriage: A Case Study of South Korea.
Douglas S. Massey
Residential Segregation of Spanish Americans in United States Urbanized Areas.
Kevin F. McQuillan
Modernization and Internal Migration: The Case of Nineteenth Century England and France.
Nallamotu J.C. Vasantkumar
Age Patterns of Mortality of American Blacks, 1940 to 1970.
1977
Christina Brinkley-Carter
Demographic and Sociological Determinants of Marital Fertility.
Linda G. Martin
Measuring Completeness of Death Registration in Destabilized Populations.
James F. McCarthy
Patterns of Marriage Dissolution in the United States.
Hania Zlotnik
Cohort Fertility in the United States: 1901-1930.
1976
Mary Barber Breckenridge
Time Series Model of Age-Specific Fertility: An Application of Exploratory Data Analysis.
Leila Thayer Erder
From Trade to Manufacture in Bursa: The Structure of a Turkish City 1835-1975.
Howard Ross Hogan
Age Patterns of Infant Mortality.
1975
Bryan L. Boulier
Douglas C. Ewbank
An Examination of Several Applications of the Standard Pattern of Age at First Marriage.
Jacqueline Eileen Darroch Forrest
Fertility Decline in Austria, 1880 to 1910.
Joseph Alfred Grinblat
A Dynamic Demographic Theory of Cohort Age-Specific Fertility.
Jane A. Menken
Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg
Reproductive Behavior of the American Birth Cohort of 1911-20.
Nazek Khalil Nosseir
Measures of Fertility and Mortality in the Governorates of Egypt 1947-1960.
Joseph E. Potter
The Validity of Measuring Change in Fertility by Analyzing Birth Histories Obtained in Survey.
1974
Lincoln Polissar
Parameterizing Age Distributions of Death by Cause.
Aykut Toros
Tarsus-II: A Social Experiment in Fertility Regulation.
T. James Trussell
Selected Applications of Model Fertility Schedules.
1973
Barbara A. Anderson
Internal Migration in a Modernizing Society: The Case of Late Nineteenth Century European Russia.
Robert Nelson Hill
Hilary Page
Age, Marriage Duration and Fertility: An Analysis of Cross-Sectional Data.
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Measurement of Personal Fertility Preferences.
1972
J. Alexander Caldwell
American Economic Assistance to Thailand: A Case Study in Bilateral Foreign Aid.
Luis Roberto Cuca-Tolosa
Demography of Brazil: A Regional Study.
Thomas J. Espenshade
The Cost of Children in Urban United States.
Miroslav Macura
David Shapiro
Three Aspects of the Economics of Education in Alberta.
Leela Visaria
Religious and Regional Differences in Mortality and Fertility in the Indian Subcontinent.
1971
James Edward Jr. Annable
Stanislaus D'Souza
A Statistical Model for Interlive Birth Intervals of Non-Contraceptive Populations.
1970
David Pokras Phillips
Dying as a Form of Social Behavior.
Jeremiah M. Sullivan
Estimation of Childhood Mortality Conditions from Childhood Survival Statistics.
1969
Peter Yochanan Comay
International Migration of Professional Manpower: the Canada - United States Case.
Albert Isaac Hermalin
The Homogeneity of Siblings on Education and Occupation.
John W. Isbister
The Growth of Employment in Mexico.
Samuel H. Preston
Analysis of a Change in Western Mortality Patterns.
Martin Stanley Schmookler
Queueing Models for Computer Storage Problems.
Robert Vale Wells
A Demographic Analysis of some Middle Colony Quaker Families of the Eighteenth Century.
1967
Richard Alan Malt
Population and the Fisc: the Effect of Demographic Change on Public Expenditures and Revenues.
John Skelton Williams
1966
Yunshik Chang
Population in Early Modernization: Korea.
Pi-Chao Chen
The Politics of Population in Communist China: a Case Study of Birth Control Policy, 1949-1965.
1965
John E. Knodel
Demographic Components of the Recent Recovery in Fertility in Selected Industrialized Countries.
1963
Pravin M. Visaria
The Sex Ratio of the Population of India.
1962
Thomas K. Burch
Internal Migration in Venezuela: A Methodological Study.
James William Leasure
Factors Involved in the Decline of Fertility in Spain, 1900-1950.
1961
Paul G. Demeny
Investment Allocation and Population Growth.
Alvaro Lopez
Problems in Stable Population Theory.
1960
Karol J. Krotki
Estimating Vital Rates from Peculiar and Inadequate Age Distributions (Sudanese Experience).
1959
Hanna Rizk
Fertility Patterns in Selected Areas in Egypt.
Warren Clayton Robinson
Rural-Urban Fertility Differentials in Lesser Developed Countries.
Bernard Udis
Technology, Worker Mobility and Local Wage Differentials.
1958
Melvin Zelnik
1957
Shri Narayan Agarwala
The Mean Age at Marriage in India as Ascertained from Census Data.
George Mair
The Projection of National Populations: A Report on the State of an Art.
1952
George Watson Barclay
Colonial Development and Population in Taiwan.
1951
Harvey Leibenstein
Toward a Theory of Demographic - Economic Development.
Norman Burston Ryder
The Cohort Approach: Essays in the Measurement of Temporal Variations in Demographic Behavior.