Demography; population, development and the environment; internal and international migration; economic development; research methodology; statistics; fertility; Latin America
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas Experience: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela • 2011 Contributor, “7 Billion Populations,” news segment broadcast on Al Jazeera English • 1977 Consultant to many UN agencies, USAID, environmental NGOs, including UN Population Division, Statistical Division, ILO, FAO, World Bank, IOM, etc. • 1972 Assistant Professor, Research Associate Professor, Research Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics, UNC-CH • 1971-1972 Postdoc in Demography, Princeton University;
Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School • 1968-1971 Assistant Prof., Economics, New York University
Distinctions:
• -ongoing External Grants: USAID • -ongoing Member, Global Science Panel • -ongoing Assisted National Council on Science and the Environment, National Academy of Sciences on “Priorities for Scientific Research on the Environment,” presented to President Bush. • 2001-2002 Advisor to World Bank on International Migration, on Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa; Global Science Panel, International Union for Scientific Study of Population, World Summit of Sustainable Development • 1997-1998 Hofstee Scholar Award, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague • 1994-1996 Board of Directors, Population Association of America • 1993-1995 Shannon Award, NIH • 1990-1994 Committee on Population and Environment, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population • 1977-1978 Deputy Editor, Demography • 1965-1966 Fulbright Scholar, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
10
Relevant Courses Taught:
• BIOS 670 Demographic Techniques I • Problems in Biostatistics
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Bilsborrow, Richard, Samir Farid & Qi Zhang.
“Determinants of International Migration from Egypt,” Report to World Bank. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, October 19, 2017. To be expanded for submission for publication.
• 2016 Aporte del empleo fuera de finca a los ingresos de hogares indígenas y mestizos de la Amazonía ecuatoriana
• 2016 Oil Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon
• 2015 “Cambios en las Estrategias de Ingresos Economicos a Nivel de Hogares Rurales en el Norte de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana,” (“Changes in Income Strategies of Rural Households in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon”) with B Torres et al. in Revista Amazonica Ciencia y Tecnologia 3(3).
• 2015 “Income Diversification of Migrant Colonists vs. Indigenous Populations: Contrasting Strategies in the Amazon,” with V Perez et al. in Journal of Rural Studies 42.
• 2015 Both extensive and intensive study designs are needed to understand wild resource harvesting: A reply to Sirén
• 2014 Bilsborrow, Richard E. Sampling Plans for MED-HIMS Surveys (Programme of Mediterranean Household International Migration Surveys). Paris: ADETEF MEDSTAT III, for the European Commission, World Bank, and others, pp. 66. https://circabc.europa.eu/faces/jsp/extension/wai/navigation/container.jsp
• 2014 Clark Gray & Richard Bilsborrow. “Consequences of out-migration for land use in rural Ecuador,” Land Use Policy 36: 182–191.
• 2013 Clark Gray & Richard Bilsborrow, “Environmental influences on human migration in Ecuador,” Demography, 50(4):1217-41.
• 2012 Bilsborrow, Richard E., and Mariam Lomaia. “International migration and remittances in developing countries: Using household surveys to improve data collection in the CIS states and Eastern Europe,” International Migration of Population in the Post-Soviet Territory in the Epoch of Globalization. Scientific series "International Migration of Population: Russia and the Contemporary World", V 26, ed. by Vladimir Iontsev (Moscow University Press), p. 10-40 (Eng &Russian).
• 2012 Lu, Flora, Richard E. Bilsborrow, and Ana Isabel Oña. Modos de Vivir y Sobrevivir: Un Estudio Transcultural de Cinco Etnias en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana (Approaches to Life and Surviving: A Cross-cultural Study of Five Ethnic Groups in the Ecuadorian Amazon). Quito, Ecuador: Editorial Abya Yala, pp. 142.
• 2012 Bilsborrow, Richard E., and Sabine Henry. “The use of survey data to study migration-environment relationships in developing countries: alternative approaches to data collection.” Population and Environment, 34: 113-141.
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