Joshua R. Goldstein

Joshua Goldstein has studied family, ethnicity, marriage, divorce, fertility, and senescence by drawing inferences from formal demographic models. He showed how often American extended families now reach across racial and economic lines, and he reconciled subjective ancestry data with immigration records (co-authored), accounting for the surprising popularity of some ancestries and the shortfall of British ones. In mathematical mortality studies, he co-discovered the Cross-sectional Average Length of Life (CAL) Identity. Joshua predicted prominent demographic transformations: multi-racial responses in the census, reversing relationships between education and marriage, and the rebound from lowest-low fertility. In 2013, Joshua was honored with the Chancellor's Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley.