User:Ron Lesthaeghe

Ron Lesthaeghe: Demographer.

Belgian demographer and sociologist, born Oostende June 2nd 1945. Education at Royal Atheneum Oostende, Rijksuniversiteit Ghent, Brown University. Phd Social Sciences Rijksuniv. Ghent, Belgium. Resarch associate Office of Population Research, Princeton NJ, Co-representative in West and Central Africa for The Population Council New York, Lecturer and then Professor of Social Sciences Research Methods and Demography at the Free University Brussels (VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel.) Visitig research professor at Univ. of Michigan Ann Arbor MI, Univ. of California Irvine, Autonoma University Barcelona.

Chairs: Francqui chair Univ. of Antwerp, Chaire Colson Sciences Politiques Paris, Erasmus chair Harvard University. Awards: Irene Taueber Award Social Demography, Population Assoc. of America. Life-time Achievement Award, International Union Scientific Study Population. John Solvay Award Soc. Sc. and Humanities, Quinquanial Belgian State Prize, Belgian Natl. Science Foundation.

Academy memberships or foreign memberships: Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium Arts and Sciences, Brussels. Royal Dutch Academy Sciences (KNAW) Amsterdam, United States Academy of Sciences, Washington DC., Academia Europeae, London, American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia.

Publications : in formal demography and demographic-econometric modelling, historical demography, studies of demographic transitions in Europe, demography of Sub-Saharan Africa, family formation in Latin America, theory and case studies of the Second Demographic Transition in Europe and US, Turkish and Moroccan populations in Belgium, Immigration effect on age structure, values orientations and sociology of culture.

Recent publication on the topic of the second demographic transition:
 * Ron Lesthaeghe, 2015, The Second Demographic Transition A Concise Overview of its Development. PNAS, US National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC. 111 (51) 18112-18115.
 * Ron Lesthaeghe, 2020: The Second Demographic Transition 1986-2020-- Sub-replacement Fertility and rising Cohabitation, a global Update. Genus, 76 (1).

Other on line publications, go to : Ron Lesthaeghe in Google Scholar and Research Gate. See also Ron Lesthaeghe file in Academia.