Kenneth C. Land, John Franklin Crowell Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and John Franklin Crowell Professor of Demographic Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	347 Soc-Psych
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5615
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.cds.duke.edu/~kland

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Texas, Austin	1969
Postdoctoral Study, Mathematical Statistics,	Columbia University, New York, New York,	1970
Ph.D. Sociology (major) and Mathematics (minor)	The University of Texas at Austin	1969
MA Sociology (major) and Mathematics (minor)	The University of Texas at Austin	1966
BA Sociology (major) and History (major)	Texas Lutheran College, Seguin, Texas	1964

Specialties:

Demographics
Crime and Juvenile Justice

Research Interests:

Mathematical Sociology/Demography (population mathematics, stochastic models of social processes, models of macro social change); Social Statistics (linear models, path analysis, structural equation systems, Poisson and mixed Poisson regression models, time series analysis, sample selection bias methods, methods of evaluation research, techniques of social impact assessment); Demography (demographic accounting, applications of multistate life tables to schooling, labor force participation, voting, and active life expectancy, demography of aging, medical demography); Criminology (criminal opportunity theory, explanations of crime rate trends and distributions, micro-models of criminal careers); Organizations and Markets (environmental variability and technical efficiency, organizational effectiveness, organizational ecology, consumer satisfaction); Social Indicators, Social Trends, and Social Forecasts (construction of summary social indicators, forecasting models, limits to forecasting accuracy)

Areas of Interest:

Mathematical Sociology/Demography
Social Statistics
Demography
Criminology
Organizations and Markets
Social Indicators, Social Trends, and Social Forecasts

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Wendy Brynildsen
• Ryan Finnigan
• Qiang Fu
• Melanie Sereny
• Jessica Sautter
• Hui Zheng

Postdocs Mentored

• Katherin King (September 2011-2012)
• Jacob Moorad (September 2011-present)
• Ben Kail (September 2010-present)
• Andy Cislo (October 2007 - October 2009)
• Denese Ashbaugh-Vlosky (2004-2006)
• Hai Huang (2005-2006)
• Alexander Kulminski (2005-2006)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Li, M; Zhu, S; Wang, Z; Feng, Q; Zhang, J; Chao, F; Tang, W; George, L; Grundy, E; Murphy, M; Lutz, M; Dobra, A; Land, K; Zeng, Y, Optimized Random-Combinations of Total Fertility Rates and Life Expectancies at Birth for Probabilistic Population Projections, Population Research and Policy Review, vol. 44 no. 1 (February, 2025) [doi]  [abs].
2. Zeng, Y; Chen, H; Liu, X; Song, Z; Yao, Y; Lei, X; Lv, X; Cheng, L; Chen, Z; Bai, C; Yin, Z; Lv, Y; Lu, J; Li, J; Land, KC; Yashin, A; O'Rand, AM; Sun, L; Yang, Z; Tao, W; Gu, J; Gottschalk, W; Tan, Q; Christensen, K; Hesketh, T; Tian, X-L; Yang, H; Egidi, V; Caselli, G; Robine, J-M; Wang, H; Shi, X; Vaupel, JW; Lutz, MW; Nie, C; Min, J, Genetic associations with longevity are on average stronger in females than in males., Heliyon, vol. 10 no. 1 (January, 2024), pp. e23691 [doi]  [abs].
3. Land, KC; Lamb, VL, Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI), in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well Being Research (January, 2024), pp. 747-752 [doi] .
4. Land, KC, Composite Index Construction, in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well Being Research (January, 2024), pp. 1270-1274 [doi] .
5. Song, X; Zang, E; Land, KC; Zheng, B, Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, vol. 80 (August, 2022) [doi]  [abs].