Alberto Palloni
Classes:
Soc 380 Contemporary Population Problems
4307 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-2182
Fax: (608) 262-8400
palloni@ssc.wisc.edu
Office Hours: MF 12-3 (Fall'09)
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Palloni, A. and P. de Sandre. 2003. "Cohort and period measures of fertility." In G. Caselli, J. Vallin and G. Wuncsh (eds) Demographie: Analyse et Synthese (Vol VII). Paris: INED.
Palloni, A. and D. Ewbank. 2002. "Selection processes and heterogeneity: tools for making inferences about social and economic determinants of health and mortality" (with Douglas Ewbank). To appear in Race, Ethnicity and Health in Later Life, Washington, D.C.: National Research Council Press.
Palloni, A. 2002. "Teaching the profession of demography: models and methods" Genus, December.
Palloni, A. 2002. "Diffusion and fertility changes" In Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll (eds). Encyclopedia on Population, McMillan Press
Palloni, A. 2002. "Demographic Aging in Latin America" International Journal of Epidemiology. March.
Education:
Ph.D., Sociology/Demography, University of Washington, 1977
Areas of Interest:
Aging, Life Course
Class Analysis and Historical Change
Demography
Methods and Statistics
Political Sociology
Sociology of Economic Change and Development
Sociology of the Family
Affiliations:
Center for Demography and Ecology
Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Institute for Research on Poverty
Institute on Aging
Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences
Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Population Health Sciences
Sociology
Research Interest Statement:
In recent research, Alberto Palloni conducted the first study to consider selection mechanisms arising from early childhood experience as a source of socioeconomic differentials in health and mortality in developed countries. He is also reconstructing adult mortality patterns for Latin American countries from 1850 onwards. He uses a novel procedure to simultaneously assess completeness of death registration and age-specific distortions in observed mortality patterns. This massive estimation exercise will identify new patterns of adult and old age mortality to document a century of Latin American mortality decline.