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New and Notable Papers
- “The Formal Demography of Peak Population,” Joshua R. Goldstein and Thomas Cassidy, Demography, 2024, 61(2):419-438.
- “Life Expectancy Reversals in Low Mortality Populations,” Joshua R. Goldstein and Ronald D. Lee, Population and Development Review, 22 April 2024
- “CenSoc: Public Linked Administrative Mortality Records for Individual-level Research,” Casey F. Breen, Maria Osborn, and Joshua R. Goldstein, Scientific Data (Nature), 2023, 10:802.
- “Mortality Modeling of Partially Observed Cohorts Using Administrative Death Records“, Joshua R. Goldstein, Maria Osborn, Serge Atherwood, and Casey F. Breen, Population Research and Policy Review, 2023, 42:36-55.
- “Naming the Precious Child: New Evidence of Intentional Family Planning in Historical Populations”, Joshua R. Goldstein and Guy Stecklov, Demography, 2023, 60(2):493-516.
- “Vaccinating the oldest against COVID-19 saves both the most lives and most years of life” (with T. Cassidy and K. Wachter), PNAS, 2021. (An expanded version of the proof with more detail is also available.)
- “Demographic Perspectives on Mortality of Covid-19 and Other Epidemics” (with R. Lee), PNAS, 2020.
- “Improved measurement of racial/ethnic disparities in Covid-19 Mortality in the United States” (with S. Atherwood), MedRxiv, 2020.
- “From Patrick to John F.: Ethnic Names and Occupational Success in the Last Era of Mass Migration” (with G. Stecklov), American Sociological Review, 2016.
- “The end of ‘lowest-low’ fertility?” (with T. Sobotka and A. Jasilioniene), Population and Development Review, 2009.
- “Marriage delayed or marriage forgone? New cohort forecasts of first marriage for US Women” (with CT Kenney), American Sociological Review, 2001.
- “How 4.5 million Irish immigrants became 40 million Irish Americans: Demographic and subjective aspects of the ethnic composition of white Americans” (with M. Hout), American Sociological Review, 1994.
- More at Google Scholar
News
- I am honored to have received the 2024 Mindel C. Sheps Award from Population Association of America for “outstanding contributions to mathematical demography or demographic methodology”
I am a demographer, with broad interests in social and economic inequality and population dynamics. My research applies sociological, economic, and demographic theories to answer questions such as — Are there economic benefits of cultural assimilation for immigrants? How do we forecast the marriage and fertility of cohorts that are still in their 20s and early 30s? How can Big Data help us understand the causes of longevity differences by ethnic group, race, and social class?
At Berkeley, I am the Chancellor’s Professor of Demography and Director of the Berkeley Population Center. I am also Principle Investigator of the CenSoc Project .
Prior to Berkeley, I was a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and, before that, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. I received my MA in Demography and Social Sciences from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris and my Ph.D. in Demography from Berkeley.