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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News from CDE | See more...
Congratulations to Yu Wang and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field for winning poster prizes at the 2013 Population Association of America meetings in New Orleans! | Read more...
More than 50 CDE-affiliated students, faculty and researchers will participate in PAA 2013 as presenters, session chairs, or discussants | Read more...
Wisconsin's graduate program is ranked #1 overall and the Sociology of Population speciality is ranked #2 by U.S. News & World Report | Read more...
CDE's sister center CDHA has a new and improved web site | Read more...
Alberto Palloni and colleagues' article on explanations for the Hispanic Health Paradox was published in the journal Demography | 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.
