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...
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...
The University of Louvain, Belgium, will award Alberto Palloni a Doctorate Honoris Causa (honorary doctorate) this fall, in recognition of his work in demography | Read 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...
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.