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Michael S. Teitelbaum
Michael S. Teitelbaum, a demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York, was educated at Reed College and at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
- faculty member at Oxford University and Princeton University;
- Staff Director of the Select Committee on Population, U.S. House of Representatives;
- professional staff member of the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
- one of 12 Commissioners of the U.S. Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development (1988-90);
- elected First Vice President of the Population Association of America, the scientific society of demographers;
- served (via appointment by the Congressional leadership) as one of nine Commissioners of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (known as the Jordan Commission after its late Chair, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan) which completed its work in December 1997. He was elected Vice Chair by his fellow Commissioners, and served as Acting Chair for much of 1996.
- Political Demography, Demographic Engineering (Berghahn Books, 2001, co-author)
- A Question of Numbers: High Migration, Low Fertility, and the Politics of National Identity (Hill and Wang, 1998, co-author)
- Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders (W.W. Norton,1995, co-editor);
- Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions (Cambridge University Press, 1989, co-editor);
- The Fear of Population Decline (Academic Books ,1985, co-author);
- Latin Migration North: The Problem for U.S. Foreign Policy (Council on Foreign Relations, 1985);
- The British Fertility Decline: Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1984).
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