John Hajnal
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John Hajnal (b. 26 November 1924) was Professor of Statistics, London School of Economics, 1975-86.
Education: University College School, London and Balliol College, Oxford.
Hajnal is known for identifying, in a landmark 1965 paper [1] the pattern of marriage of northwest Europe in which people historically married late and many adults remained single. This contrasts sharply with an a woldwide phenomenon of early and near-universal marriage.
[edit] Career
- Royal Commission on Population, 1944-48
- United Nations, New York, 1948-51
- Office of Population Research, Princeton University, 1951-53
- Manchester University, 1953-57
- London School of Economics, 1957-86 (reader, 1966-75, professor 1975-86)
- Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1974-75
- Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University, 1981
He is a member of the International Statistical Institute and was elected FBA in 1966.
[edit] References
- ^ "European Marriage Patterns in Perspective," in Glass and Eversley, eds., Population in History, Essays in Historical Demography, 1965
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