OPR has a long and distinguished history training some of the nation’s most prominent demographers.
2023
Christopher M. Felton
Three Essays on Causal Inference with Observational Data and the Sociology of Mental Health and Self-Harm
Jinyuan (Chi) Qi
2022
Hannah Postel
Records of Exclusion: Chinese Immigration in Historical Perspective
Posdoc Dept. of Economics, Stanford University
Belén Unzueta
Consensus or Conflict over Ethnoracial Categories? Classificatory Systems in Chile and Bolivia
Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn-Mellon Just Futures Initiative
Gina DelCorazon
Diversity from the top down: Relational demography in the teacher and school leader workforce
Sophie Moullin
The Self in Socio-Economic Stratification
Gracie Himmelstein
Mechanisms of the Social Production of Population Health Inequality in the United States
Resident Physician, UCLA Health
2021
Janet Xu
Organizational Diversity Programs and Individual Outcomes
Postdoctoral Fellow, Inequality in America Initiative, Harvard University
Wanru Xiong
Research Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Shuang Yo-Yo Chen
Family Size in Low-Fertility China: Determinants and Effects
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ian Lundberg
Research Begins with a Goal: A Framework Illustrated by Gap-Closings Estimands
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, Cornell University
Christopher Hale
Mass Migration and Social Change
Senior Policy Analyst, APPRISE
Daniela Urbina Julio
When the Tables Turn: Marriage and Gender Inequality in Latin America
Postdoctoral Researcher, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
2020
Theresa F. Andrasfay
Postdoctoral Fellow, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
Rebecca A. Johnson
Zero-Sum Rights: Student Needs, Parental Intervention, and Hidden Rationing in K-12 Education
Assistant Professor, Program in Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College
Hannah M. Korevaar
Spatial Demographic and Epidemiology of Measles
Research Scientist, Facebook
Federica Querin
Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility in Western Countries
Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute
2019
Etienne Breton
Modernization and Household Change in India
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
Leah L. Gillion
Education, Political Ideology, and Academic Outcomes
Postdoctoral Fellow, Education Policy Division, University of Pennsylvania
Sarah A. James
The Role of Sleep in the Status Attainment Process
Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Celeste Marin
It's about Time:Improving the Measurement of Time Use in Low-Resource Settings
Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Drexel University Dornside School of Public Health
Joel J. Mittleman
LGB Youth in America's Schools: New Evidence from a Changing Context
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Notre Dame
Emilce A. Santana
Can Love Conquer All? Platonic and Romantic Relationships Across Ethnoracial Lines
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Texas A&M University
2018
Cheng C. Cheng
Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision-Making in China
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University
Angela R. Dixon
The Color of Inequity: Perceptions of Discrimination in Latin America
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Emory University
2017
Angelina Grigoryeva
Household Economies in the Context of Financialization and Population Aging
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto
Ayesha S. Mahmud
Assistant Professor, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zitsi Mirakhur
With a Little Help from my Friends" Examining the Role of Peer Homophily in High School Success
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, University of Kentucky
2016
Janeria A. Easley
Getting a Job, Getting to Work: Hidden Inequality in Spatial Mismatch Among US Ethnoracial Groups
Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, Emory University
Kerstin Gentsch
How Admission Policy Shapes College Access: Evidence from Two Sectors
Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Policy Research at the City University of New York (CUNY)
Joanne W. Golann
Scripting the Moves: Class, Control, and Urban School Reform
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University
Aaron J. Gottlieb
Mass Incarceration in the United States: New Evidence on Implications and Ways Forward
Assistant Professor, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
Patrick Ishizuka
Culture or Constraints? Parenthood and the Persistence of Inequality
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan C. Tannen
Measuring Cities’ Internal Demographic Change as the Movement of Emergent Boundaries
Research Engingeering Manager, Meta Responsible AI
Saul Thorkelson
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Statistics, Bard Microcollege
Amy K. Winter
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Georgia
Jessica Yiu
2015
Edward Berchick
Kristin Bietsch
Men and Contraception in sub-Saharan Africa
Senior Demographer, Avenir Health
Diane Coffey
Little Women: Essays on Maternal Nutrition, Social Hierarchy and Health in India
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Dennis Feehan
Assistant Professor, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley
Lauren Gaydosh
Beyond Orphanhood: Family Structure and Child Health in Tanzania
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Faculty Research Associate, Population Research Center
Faculty Affiliate, Center on Aging and Population Sciences
Laura B. Nolan
Three Essays on Child Health and Economic Wellbeing in Four Developing Countries
Chief of Population and Social Statistics Section, United Nations ESCAP
Takudzwa Sayi
Relationship between Marriage and Fertility Changes in Six sub-Saharan African Counties
Elizabeth Sully
An Intimate Epidemic: HIV and Marriage in Rural Uganda
Senior Research Scientist, Guttmacher Institute
Megan Todd
Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Role for Immune Function?
Director of Global Admissions, Founder Institute
2014
Naomi Sugie
Finding Work: A Smartphone Study of Job Searching, Social Contact & Wellbeing After Prison
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Societ, University of California, Irvine
2013
Laura Blue
Body Weight, Weight Change, and Mortality Risk
Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research
Julia Gelatt
Immigration Status and Child Well-being in the United States
Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC
Jayanti Owens
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Sociology, Brown University
John Palmer
Activity-Space Segregation: Understanding Social Divisions in Space and Time
Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University
Michelle Phelps
Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Minnesota
Wendy Sheldon
The Correlates of Postpartum Blood Loss: Examination of Means and Markers for Risk Reduction
Adjunct Instructor, University at Buffalo School of Social Work
LaTonya J. Trotter
Medical Work/Nursing Work: Negotiating the Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care
Associate Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington
Erik Vickstrom
The Production and Consequences of Migrant Irregularity: Senegalese in France, Italy, and Spain
Policy Analyst, International Migration Division, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
2012
Audrey Dorelien
Birth Seasonality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Its Determinants and Implications For Child Health
Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Faculty Member of Minnesota Population Center
Emily A. Marshall
Population Problems? Demographic Knowledge and Fertility in Great Britain and France, 1945-2005
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Public Health Program, Franklin and Marshall College
Daniel J. Schneider
Wealth and the Propensity to Marry
Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Sociology, Harvard Kennedy School
2011
Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra
Migration and Remittances During the Period of Civil Conflict in Nepal
Director of Research and Planning, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Elizabeth A. Gummerson
In Sickness and Wealth: Three Essays on Health, Human Capital and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
Associate Research Scientist, ICAP at Columbia University
Tin-chi Lin
Essays on Fertility Preference, Social Change, and Living Arrangements
Biostatistician, Corrona
Kevin O'Neil
Challenging Change: Local Policies and the New Geography of American Immigration
Director, Data and Technology, The Rockefeller Foundation
Rania Salem
Associate Professor Sociology, University of Toronto
Silvia Heidi Ullmann
Perspectives on Social Inequality, Migration, and Health: Three Essays on Mexico
Project Management Advisor, Office of the Assistant Director at Pan American Health Organization
2010
Sofya Aptekar
Immigrant Naturalization and Nation-Building in North America
Associate Professor of Urban Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Nicholas Ehrmann
Yellow Brick Road. The Roots of Academic Underperformance in Washington D.C.
Managing Director, Impact, Arena Holdings
Account Executive, General Commercial, Salesforce
Petra Nahmias
The Social Epidemiology of Maternal Obesity in Egypt
Chief of Population and Social Statistics Section, United Nations ESCAP
Analia S. Olgiati
Health, Mortality and Migration in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group
2009
Sharon H. Bzostek
Social Fathers in Fragile Families: Prevalence, Predictors and Influence
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University
Research Associate, Center for Research on Child Well-Being, Princeton University
Valerie Lewis
Slums and Children's Disadvantage: The Case of India
Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kimberly Smith
Essays on the Determinants of Health and Mortality
Senior Director, International Foundation and NGO Partnerships, Mathematica
2008
Rebecca Casciano
"By Any Means Necessary": The American Welfare State and Machine Politics in Newark's North Ward
Founder and President, Glass Frog
Conrad Hackett
Religion and Fertility in the United States: The Influence of Affiliation, Region, and Congregation
Associate Director of Research and Senior Demographer, Pew Research Center
Visiting Research Professor, Maryland Population Research Center
Emily M. Moiduddin
Understanding the Sources of Racial and Gender Disparities in Early Childhood Aggression
Director of Early Childhood Research, Mathematica
Christine Percheski
Women's Employment, Family Structure, and Social Inequality
Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute for Policy Research Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University
David Potere
Senior Advisor, Indigo
Samir S. Soneji
Aging, Disability, and Continuous Time Demographic Methodology
Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Christopher James Wildeman
Professor of Sociology, Duke University
Director, National Data Archiv on Child Abuse and Neglect
Research Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty
Professor, Rockwool Foundation Research Unit
2007
Meredith Alyce Kleykamp
Military Service and Minority Opportunity
Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland
Jake Rosenfeld
Professor of Sociology, Washington University - St. Louis
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
Effects of Social Interactions on Individual AIDS-Prevention Attitudes and Behaviors in Rural Malawi
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
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
2000
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
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
1994
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
1989
David Jeremy Fein
Shaomin Li
China's Population Policy: A Model of a Constant Stream of Births
Kia Inta Reinis
1988
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1966
1965
1963
Pravin M. Visaria
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
1960
1959
Hanna Rizk
Fertility Patterns in Selected Areas in Egypt
Warren Clayton Robinson
Rural-Urban Fertility Differentials in Lesser Developed Countries
Bernard Udis
1958
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
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