Welcome to the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

CDE is a multi-disciplinary faculty research cooperative for social scientific demographic research whose membership includes sociologists, rural sociologists, economists, epidemiologists, and statisticians. CDE is one of the leading centers of social science research in the world, as indicated by the scholarly productivity of its faculty, the level of extramural funding secured by researchers, the production and distribution of high quality demographic data, and the quality of its graduate training program. The intellectual collegial environment of the Center makes it an exciting and stimulating place in which to conduct research.

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You can watch a live webcast of the workshop "Exploring the Microbiome in Population Health and Social Research" (Friday, Sept. 20, 8 am-5 pm) at: http://tinyurl.com/latknkt | Read more...
The current issue of the journal Demography includes FOUR articles by CDE affiliates | Read more...
Felix Elwert has won the first Causality in Statistics Education Award from the American Statistical Association | Read more...
CDE affiliate John Karl Scholz has been named dean of the UW-Madison College of Letters & Science | Read more...
Christina Diaz has won the 2013 Society for the Study of Social Problems Family Section Student Paper award | Read more...
CDE receives funding via a Population Research Infrastructure grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (R24 HD047873). Our sister center CDHA receives Center Grant funding from the National Institute on Aging (P30 AG017266). See how to acknowledge this support.

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Recent Publications

Massoglia, Michael, Glenn Firebaugh and Cody Warner. 2013. "Racial Variation in the Effect of Incarceration on Neighborhood Attainment." American Sociological Review, 78: 142-165.


Palloni, A. and J.R. Thomas. 2013. "Estimation of Covariate Effects with Current Status Data and Differential Mortality." Demography 50(2): 521-544.


Riosmena, F., R. Wong and A. Palloni. 2013. "Migration, Selection, Protection, and Acculturation in Health: A Binational Perspective on Older Adults." Demography 50(3): 1039-1064.


Schwartz, Christine R. 2013. "Trends and Variation in Assortative Mating: Causes and Consequences." Annual Review of Sociology 39:23.1-23.20.