Michael S. Teitelbaum is a demographer

Demography

Demography is the statistical study of human population. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic human population, that is, one that changes over time or space...

 at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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 in New York City

New York City

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He publishes on immigration

Immigration

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 issues in both the popular and academic press and served as Commissioner to the U.S. Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development (1988–90) and the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (1996–1997) under Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan

Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician who was both a product and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives...

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Teitelbaum was an undergraduate degree at Reed College

Reed College

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 and later a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned his D.Phil

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in demography

Demography

Demography is the statistical study of human population. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic human population, that is, one that changes over time or space...

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Selected bibliography

• Political Demography, Demographic Engineering (Berghahn Books, 2001, co-author)
• A Question of Numbers: High Migration, Low Fertility, and the Politics of National Identity (Hill and Wang, 1998, co-author)
• Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders (W.W. Norton,1995, co-editor);
• Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions (Cambridge University Press, 1989, co-editor);
• The Fear of Population Decline (Academic Books ,1985, co-author);
• Latin Migration North: The Problem for U.S. Foreign Policy (Council on Foreign Relations, 1985);
• The British Fertility Decline: Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1984).