Samuel H. Preston

Samuel H. Preston
Born (1943-12-02) December 2, 1943
Nationality American
Alma mater Princeton University
Scientific career
Fields Demography
Institutions University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral students Alberto Palloni

Samuel Hulse Preston (born December 2, 1943) is an American demographer and sociologist.

He is one of the leading demographers in the United States. He received his Ph.D in economics from Princeton University in 1968. Preston is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. He is the former Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1987.[1]

The Preston curve is named after him. Preston's major research interest is in the health of populations. He has written primarily about mortality trends and patterns in large aggregates, including twentieth century mortality transitions and black/white differentials in the United States.

Publications

  • Preston, Samuel H., & Michael Haines. (1991), Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century America., Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Gribble, James N., & Preston, Samuel H. (editors) (1993), The Epidemiological transition: policy and planning implications for developing countries, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, ISBN 9780585273143, retrieved 3 June 2010
  • Preston, Samuel H, Patrick Heuveline, and Michel Guillot. (1991), Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes., New York: Blackwell

References

  1. ↑ "Samuel H. Preston". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved July 30, 2016.


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