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Joshua R. Goldstein

Laboratory of Economic and Social Demography

Director
Head of the Laboratory of Economic and Social Demography
Head of the Laboratory of Historical Demography

 

Joshua R. Goldstein is Director of the MPIDR and Head of the Laboratories of Economic and Social Demography and of Historical Demography. His research interests include family demography, fertility, marriage, aging, and demographic forecasting. He earned a BA in history from Yale University and a DEA in Demography and Social Sciences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. In 1996, he received his PhD in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1996 to 2007, he was a professor (Assistant, Associate and Full) of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. In 2007, he became Director at the MPIDR.

 

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E-Mailgoldstein@demogr.mpg.de
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MPIDR Publications (selected)

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Goldstein, J. R.; Cassidy, T.:
How slowing senescence translates into longer life expectancy
Population Studies 66:1, 29-37 (2012).
Myrskylä, M.; Goldstein, J. R.:
Probabilistic forecasting using stochastic diffusion models, with applications to cohort processes of marriage and fertility
Demography 50:1, 237-260 (2013).
Hin, S. C.; Gauthier, A. H.; Goldstein, J. R.; Bühler, C.:
Fertility preferences: what measuring second choices teaches us
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 9.2011, 131-156 (2012).
Klüsener, S.; Szoltysek, M.; Goldstein, J. R.:
Towards an integrated understanding of demographic change and its spatio-temporal dimensions: concepts, data needs, and example case studies
Die Erde 143:1-2, 75-105 (2012).
Goldstein, J. R.; Rößger, F.; Jaschinski, I.; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A.:
Fertilitätsprognosen im deutschsprachigen Raum: Bisherige Erfahrungen und Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten
Comparative Population Studies 36:2-3, 661-692 (2011).

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