Øystein Kravdal

I was professor of demography at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo, from 1994 to 2022. In the last years of that period, I had a part-time position at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. I now have a full-time position there, as a principal investigator at the Centre for Fertility and Health. My research has dealt with the interrelationships between family/fertility, socioeconomic resources and health/mortality. Most of the analysis has been based on Norwegian register data (and sometimes survey data), but I have also used survey data from developing countries. I have taken a particular interest in the application of relatively advanced statistical methods in demography (such as multilevel-multiprocess models) and have also written papers that are more theoretically oriented. Several of the papers have been published in major demography journals, and I have also written papers that have appeared in journals of epidemiology, cancer research, or sociology. I was co-editor of Population Studies from 2004 to 2013.