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Mark Montgomery is a senior associate in the Policy Research Division. He is also a professor in the economics department, State University of New York at Stony Brook. His current research interests lie in three areas: the links between poverty and demographic behavior in the cities of developing countries; measurement of poverty and poverty dynamics using proxy variables; and how diffusion dynamics operate in the spread of fertility control and other innovative forms of demographic behavior.
Montgomery joined the Population Council in 1993. Before that, he had been in the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, and a Rockefeller Foundation senior fellow at the University of Lagos. He holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1982). He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population and served from 1999 to 2003 as co-chair of its Panel on Urban Population Dynamics. The panel’s report, entitled Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World, was published by the National Academy Press in 2003; he was editor of the report along with Richard Stren, Barney Cohen, and Holly Reed.
A partial list of publications includes:
Montgomery, Mark R. and Alex C. Ezeh. 2005. Urban health in developing countries: Insights from demographic theory and practice, in Sandro Galea and David Vlahov (eds.), Handbook of Urban Health: Populations, Methods, and Practice. New York: Kluwer, pp. 317 360.
Montgomery, Mark R. and Alex C. Ezeh. 2005. The health of urban populations in developing countries: An overview, in Sandro Galea and David Vlahov (eds.), Handbook of Urban Health: Populations, Methods, and Practice. New York: Kluwer. pp. 201 222.
Montgomery, Mark R. and Paul C. Hewett. 2004. Urban poverty and health in developing countries: Household and neighborhood effects, Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 184. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)
Montgomery, Mark, Richard Stren, Barney Cohen, and Holly Reed (eds.). 2003. Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
Hewett, Paul and Mark Montgomery. 2001. "Poverty and public services in developing-country cities," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 154. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)
Montgomery, Mark, Gebre-Egziabher Kiros, Dominic Agyeman, John B. Casterline, Peter Aglobitse, and Paul C. Hewett. 2001. "Social networks and contraceptive dynamics in southern Ghana," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 153. New York: Population Council. (abstract) (PDF)
Montgomery, Mark. 2000. "Perceiving mortality decline," Population and Development Review 26(4): 795 820. (PDF)
Montgomery, Mark, Mary Arends-Kuenning, and Cem Mete. 2000. "The quantity quality transition in Asia," in C.Y. Cyrus Chu and Ronald Lee (eds.), Population and Economic Change in East Asia, supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 26, pp. 223 256. Earlier version published as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 123. New York: Population Council. (abstract only) (PDF)
Montgomery, Mark, Michele Gragnolati, Kathleen A. Burke, and Edmundo Paredes. 2000. "Measuring living standards with proxy variables," Demography 37(2): 155 174.
Montgomery, Mark and Woojin Chung. 1999. "Social networks and the diffusion of fertility control in the Republic of Korea," in Richard Leete (ed.), Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 179 209.
Current projects:
Measures of Urban Poverty
New Methods for Estimating and Projecting Urban Populations
The Ouagadougou Urban Health and Poverty Initiative |
