Ronald R. Rindfuss
Ph.D., Research Professor,
Sociology
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CPC Office: 308-E CPC 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. In recent years, a focus has been on country-level institutional factors influence on fertility in developed countries. 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. Working with UNC and University of San Francisco de Quito researchers, he is examining the impact of population and tourism growth on the environment in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. 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.
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