Jan Hoem

Jan Michael Hoem ( born April 17, 1939 in Kristiansund, Norway) is a Norwegian population scientist and Professor of Statistical Demography.

Life

Hoem studied at the University of Oslo actuarial and acquired there in 1964 and his M.Sc. Followed in 1968 by the M.Sc. in mathematical statistics, while Hoem 1965 to 1969 as an assistant at the Chair of Theoretical Statistics, University of Oslo worked. 1969 doctorate Hoem Dr. phil. and went in 1970 as Head of the Socio- Demographic Research Unit at the Central Office of Statistics Norway. From 1974 to 1981 Hoem was a professor in insurance mathematics at the University of Copenhagen, the 1981 was followed by the Chair of Demometrie at Stockholm University until 1999. Hoem 1999 was appointed by the Max Planck Society for the second director at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, where he established the Department of fertility and family development in contemporary Europe and directed. Hoem 2002 was appointed Honorary Professor of Statistical Demography at the University of Rostock.

In addition to his scientific work on the retirement in 2007 also Hoem is a member of the Actuarial Association of Norway, the American Statistical Association, the International Statistical Institute, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and the Scandinavian Demographic Society and the Population Association of America.

Award

January Hoem received in 2006 for his scientific activities in the course of his career from the international demographer Association International Union for the Scientific Study of Population election as one Laureate 2006.

Works (selection)

January Hoem is the author and co-author of numerous publications. His book Basic Concepts of Formal Demography, which became the standard work of the Introduction to Demography in Norway, Hoem published before the doctorate. His article Purged and partial Markov chains (1969 ) on Markov chain models became an important treatise of modern actuarial science.

  • J. M. Hoem; T. Frejka; T. Sobotka; L. Toulemon: Summary and general conclusions: childbearing trends and policies in Europe. In: Demographic Research. Vol 19, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2008, pp. 5-14, doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.19.2.
  • J. M. Hoem; D. Kostova: Early traces of the Second Demographic Transition in Bulgaria: a joint analysis of marital and non- marital union formation, 1960-2004 .. In: Population Studies. 2008, pp. 259-271, doi: 10.1080/00324720802313256.
  • J. M. Hoem; GR Neyer: Education and permanent childlessness: Austria vs.. Sweden; a research note. In: Demographic challenges for the 21st century: a state of the art in demography. VUBPRESS, Brussels 2008, ISBN 978-90-5487-447-8, pp. 91-112 (PDF ( 23 pages, 245 kB) ).
  • Classical demographic methods of analysis and modern event -history techniques. In: IUSSP: 22nd International Conference population. Volume 3, Montreal 1993, pp. 281-291.
  • Public policy as the fuel of fertility: effects of a policy reform on the pace of childbearing in Sweden in the 1980s. In: Acta Sociologica. Vol 36, No 1, 1993, pp. 19-31, doi: 10.1177/000169939303600102.
  • Social policy and recent fertility change in Sweden. In: Population and Development Review. Vol 16, No. 4, 1990, pp. 735-748.
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