OPR has a long and distinguished history training some of the nation’s most prominent demographers.
2022
Hannah Postel
Records of Exclusion: Chinese Immigration in Historical Perspective
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University
Belén Unzueta
Consensus or Conflict over Ethnoracial Categories? Classificatory Systems in Chile and Bolivia
Gina DelCorazon
Diversity from the top down: Relational demography in the teacher and school leader workforce
Senior Research Scientist Bezos Academy
Sophie Moullin
The Self in Socio-Economic Stratification
Gracie Himmelstein
Mechanisms of the Social Production of Population Health Inequality in the United States
2021
Janet Xu
Organizational Diversity Programs and Individual Outcomes
Postdoctoral Fellow, Inequality in America Initiative, Harvard University
Wanru Xiong
Research Assistant Professor in the Urban Governance and Design Thrust Area, Society Hub, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Shuang Yo-Yo Chen
Family Size in Low-Fertility China: Determinants and Effects
Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics
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 at APPRISE
Daniela Urbina Julio
When the Tables Turn: Marriage and Gender Inequality in Latin America
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford
2020
Theresa F. Andrasfay
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California
Rebecca A. Johnson
Zero-Sum Rights: Student Needs, Parental Intervention, and Hidden Rationing in K-12 Education
Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Hannah M. Korevaar
Spatial Demographic and Epidemiology of Measles
Research Scientist, Meta
Federica Querin
Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility in Western Countries
Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute
2019
Etienne Breton
Modernization and Household Change in India
Leah L. Gillion
Education, Political Ideology, and Academic Outcomes
Sarah A. James
The Role of Sleep in the Status Attainment Process
Celeste Marin
It's about Time:Improving the Measurement of Time Use in Low-Resource Settings
Joel J. Mittleman
LGB Youth in America's Schools: New Evidence from a Changing Context
Emilce A. Santana
Can Love Conquer All? Platonic and Romantic Relationships Across Ethnoracial Lines
2018
2017
Angelina Grigoryeva
Household Economies in the Context of Financialization and Population Aging
Ayesha S. Mahmud
Zitsi Mirakhur
With a Little Help from my Friends" Examining the Role of Peer Homophily in High School Success
2016
Janeria A. Easley
Getting a Job, Getting to Work: Hidden Inequality in Spatial Mismatch Among US Ethnoracial Groups
Kerstin Gentsch
How Admission Policy Shapes College Access: Evidence from Two Sectors
Joanne W. Golann
Scripting the Moves: Class, Control, and Urban School Reform
Aaron J. Gottlieb
Mass Incarceration in the United States: New Evidence on Implications and Ways Forward
Patrick Ishizuka
Culture or Constraints? Parenthood and the Persistence of Inequality
Jonathan C. Tannen
Measuring Cities’ Internal Demographic Change as the Movement of Emergent Boundaries
Saul Thorkelson
Amy K. Winter
Jessica Yiu
2015
Edward Berchick
Kristin Bietsch
Men and Contraception in sub-Saharan Africa
Diane Coffey
Little Women: Essays on Maternal Nutrition, Social Hierarchy and Health in India
Dennis Feehan
Lauren Gaydosh
Beyond Orphanhood: Family Structure and Child Health in Tanzania
Laura B. Nolan
Three Essays on Child Health and Economic Wellbeing in Four Developing Countries
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
Megan Todd
Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Role for Immune Function?
2014
2013
Laura Blue
Body Weight, Weight Change, and Mortality Risk
Julia Gelatt
Immigration Status and Child Well-being in the United States
Jayanti Owens
John Palmer
Activity-Space Segregation: Understanding Social Divisions in Space and Time
Michelle Phelps
Wendy Sheldon
The Correlates of Postpartum Blood Loss: Examination of Means and Markers for Risk Reduction
LaTonya J. Trotter
Medical Work/Nursing Work: Negotiating the Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care
Erik Vickstrom
The Production and Consequences of Migrant Irregularity: Senegalese in France, Italy, and Spain
2012
Audrey Dorelien
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
2011
Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra
Migration and Remittances During the Period of Civil Conflict in Nepal
Elizabeth A. Gummerson
In Sickness and Wealth: Three Essays on Health, Human Capital and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
Tin-chi Lin
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
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
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
Valerie Lewis
Slums and Children's Disadvantage: The Case of India
Kimberly Smith
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
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