First name/ Prénom: Thomas Last name/Nom de famille: LeGrand

Thomas
First name/ Prénom:
Last name/Nom de famille:
Country(s) of nationality /
Pays de nationalité
Country of residence /
Pays de résidence
LeGrand
Canada, France & USA
Canada
Université de Montréal – Démographie
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, Qc. H3C 3J7 Canada
[email protected]
Mailing address /
Adresse postale
Email address /
Adresse éléctronique
Telephone
Téléphone
Training and highest
Degree / Formation et
diplôme le plus élevé:
Office: (1-514) 343-7262
Home: (1-514) 739-7268
PhD in Economics
Year: 1989
Année
Institution: University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Discipline:
Economics; main fields: demography & development
Job title: Full professor of Demography
Current employment
Emploi actuel
Previous employment (list
up to 3)
Emplois precedents (3
maximum)
Institution: Université de Montréal
(Département de démographie )
1. Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate, Centre d'Etudes
et de Recherche sur la Population pour le Développement
(CERPOD), Mali, 10/1989-12/1990. Research on
reproductive and health behaviors and on child survival,
mostly with Cheikh Mbacké
2. Consultant, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease
Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), 10/1985-8/1986. Work
included research on the effects of health and family planning
services on infant and child mortality with James Phillips.
3. Research analyst, Regional Planning Council, Baltimore,
Maryland USA, 1980-1982. Responsible for socioeconomic
and demographic projections for the Baltimore metropolitan
area.
Other honorary or
professional positions (list
up to 3):
Autres functions
professionnelles, associatives
ou honorifiques (3
maximum)
1. Chair, International Outreach Committee, Population
Association of America, 1998-2001; member 1996-1998.
2.
3.
1. One of four members of the IUSSP scientific panel on
adolescence in LDC’s, 2002-2006.
IUSSP participation (such
as IUSSP offices held; role
in IUSSP scientific groups;
and/or meeting
participation)
2. Organizer and co-chair (with Kenneth Hill) of a full day
Workshop on Mortality and Reproductive Decision-Making
in Sub-Saharan Africa, held at the24th IUSSP General
Population Conference, Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, 8/2001.
3. Frequent participant (various paper presentations,
discussant and chair) in major IUSSP meetings.
Contributions à l’UIESP,
4.
(telles que functions electives,
participation à des groupes
ou à des reunions
scientifiques)
5.
1. Fatima Juarez and Thomas LeGrand (2005). “Factors
influencing boy’s age at first intercourse and condom use in
the shantytowns of Recife, Brazil”, Studies in Family
Planning, 36(1):57-7.
Publications
(List no more than 6 major
publications; give full source
detail for each – year, title,
co-authors, publisher, etc.)
(Donner les références
bibliographiques complètes –
année, titre, co-auteurs,
éditeurs, etc. – de chacune de
vos 6 principales
publications)
2. Thomas LeGrand, Todd Koppenhaver, Nathalie Mondain
and Sara Randall (2003). “Reassessing the insurance effect:
A qualitative analysis of fertility behavior in Senegal and
Zimbabwe”, Population and Development Review, 29(3):375403.
3. Thomas LeGrand (2003). “World Population Growth and
the Environment”, chapter1-10-04-01 in the online
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems , section on Human
Resources and their Development, produced under the auspices
of UNESCO, Oxford ,UK: Eolss Publishers
[http://www.eolss.net/].
4. Richard Lalou and Thomas LeGrand (1997). “Child
Mortality in the Urban and Rural Sahel”, Population: An
English Selection 9(1997):147-168. [Original French version:
“La santé des enfants du Sahel en ville et au village”,
Population, 51(2):329-352].
5. Thomas LeGrand and James Phillips (1996). “The effect
of fertility reductions on infant and child mortality: evidence
from Matlab in rural Bangladesh”, Population Studies,
50(1):51-68.
6. Thomas LeGrand (1995). “The determinants of men's
retirement behaviour in Brazil” , Journal of Development
Studies, 31(5):673-701.