Alberto Palloni | |
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| Born | April 29, 1949 |
| Nationality | Italian American |
| Alma mater | University of Washington (Ph.D., 1977) |
| Known for | Work on health and mortality as they relate to demography |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (1987–88) Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1991–92) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology Demography |
| Thesis | Estimating Infant and Childhood Mortality from Data on Children Surviving (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel H. Preston |
Alberto Palloni (born April 29, 1949)[1] is an Italian-American demographer and sociologist who works for the RAND Corporation. He was previously the Samuel H. Preston Professor of Sociology, and the E.T. Young Professor of Population and International Studies, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[2] In 2006, he was the president of the Population Association of America.[3]