Ronald R. Rindfuss

Ph.D., Robert Paul Ziff Distinguished Professor, Sociology

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CPC Office: 308-E Univ Sq West
CPC Phone Number: (919) 966-7779

Campus Office: 268 Hamilton
Campus Phone Number: (919) 966-5558

Email: ron_rindfuss@unc.edu

Ronald Rindfuss is a social demographer whose work focuses on the timing and sequencing of cohabitation, marriage, childbearing, divorce, education, migration, and employment. He is also working on the relationship between population processes and the environment. In collaboration with several CPC Fellows and researchers at the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, he is examining migration and social change in Thailand. Rindfuss, in collaboration with researchers here at CPC, Duke and the University of Oslo, is examining the extent to which increased availability of day care centers has a pro-natalist effect. He is also examining causes and patterns of family change in Japan, in collaboration with colleagues at Keio University, the East-West Center and the University of Wisconsin. A past president of the Population Association of America and former director of CPC, he has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1992.

Related CPC Signature Themes:

• Fertility, Families, and Children

• Place, Space, and Health

• Population and Environment

Current CPC Grants and Contracts:

• Circular Migration and Its Long-Term Implications

• Demographic Data Sharing and Archiving

• Dynamically Integrating Macro and Micro Processes

• HSD: Marginality in a Marginal Environment: An Agent-Based Approach to Population-Environment Relationships

• Integrative Graduate Education, Research, and Training in Population and Environment

• Modeling Household Dynamics and Land Use

Information updated on 3/25/2009