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Name
  
Samuel Preston


Role
  
University Professor

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Education
  
Princeton University (1965–1968), Amherst College

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
Demography, Fatal years, Mortality patterns in national p, Causes of death: life tables for, Older male mortality and cigar

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

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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.

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 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
  • 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 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
  • Preston, Samuel H, Patrick Heuveline, and Michel Guillot. (1991), Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes., New York: Blackwell CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
  • References

    Samuel H. Preston Wikipedia