Name Samuel Preston | Role University Professor | |
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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 | ||
Zach Cohen Ph D Candidate, Clinical Psychology Determining What Works For Whom in Mental Health
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.
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