February 14, 2013 | News | Suessmilch Lecture

Demography in Latin America

Albert Esteve from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) will give a lecture at the MPIDR entitled “The Second Demographic Transition in Latin America: are we seeing the first traces?”

Vita

Albert Esteve is Research Scientist and Vice-Director of the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (Center for Demographic Studies) in Barcelona. He earned his PhD in demography in 2003 at the University Autonoma of Barcelona (Spain) and he has done post-doctoral work at the Minnesota Population Center and the Institut National d’ Études Démographiques (France). Esteve does work on union formation, family and household demography as well on immigration, spatial demography, and census micro-data, often taking a large cross-national perspective. His work has appeared in Population Development Review, Demographic Research, Historical Methods, the International Migration Review, and other outlets. He is the principal investigator of the WorldFam project, funded by the European Research Council.