Office of Population Research

Director

James Trussell

Associate Director

Barbara Sutton

Executive Committee

Noreen Goldman, Woodrow Wilson School

Douglas S. Massey, Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School

Sara S. McLanahan, Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School

Marta Tienda, Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School

James Trussell, Economics, Woodrow Wilson School

Associated Faculty

Jeanne Altmann, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Elizabeth Armstrong, Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School

Anne C. Case, Economics, Woodrow Wilson School

Angus S. Deaton, Economics, Woodrow Wilson School

Thomas J. Espenshade, Sociology

Noreen Goldman, Woodrow Wilson School

Joshua Goldstein, Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School

Alan B. Krueger, Economics, Woodrow Wilson School

Adriana Lleras-Muney, Economics, Woodrow Wilson School

Scott Lynch, Sociology

Douglas S. Massey, Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School

Sara S. McLanahan, Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School

Katherine Newman, Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School

Devah Pager, Sociology

Christine H. Paxson, Economics, Woodrow Wilson School

Alejandro Portes, Sociology

Lee M. Silver, Woodrow Wilson School, Molecular Biology

Burton M. Singer, Woodrow Wilson School

Mario Small, Sociology

Marta Tienda, Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School

James Trussell, Economics, Woodrow Wilson School

Bruce Western, Sociology

Sits with Committee

Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Sociology

Jean B. Grossman, Woodrow Wilson School

Germán Rodríguez, Office of Population Research

Charles Westoff, Office of Population Research

 

The Office of Population Research (OPR) was established in 1936 to develop research and instruction in demography. OPR’s faculty are drawn from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the departments of ecology and evolutionary biology, economics, and sociology.

OPR faculty associates’ broad interests span the fields of population and environment, population and development, health and population policy, poverty and child well-being, demographic anthropology, social and economic demography, and mathematical and statistical demography. Current areas of faculty research and teaching, centered in both developed and developing countries, include the effects of biological, epidemiological, social, and economic factors on aging, family structure, fertility and fecundity, health and mortality, inequality, migration and immigration, and urbanization.

The Ansley J. Coale Population Research Collection in the Donald E. Stokes Library is one of the oldest demography libraries in the world, and its collection is considered to be the premier collection of demographic material in the country. Founded over 35 years ago as OPR’s specialized research library, it is now a special library in the Princeton University Library system, located in Wallace Hall. The library staff can conduct literature searches of all pertinent databases.

The Notestein Seminars is a weekly lecture series given both by distinguished outside speakers and by faculty and students of the office.

Financial assistance for research is provided by several sources, primarily the Ford, William and Flora Hewlett, Andrew W. Mellon, and Rockefeller Foundations, and the National Institutes of Health.

OPR is also home to the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) and the Mellon Program on Urbanization and Migration (PUM). OPR is also affiliated with the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) and the Center for Migration and Development (CMD). More information can be found on the Web at opr.princeton.edu.