Evelyn Mae Kitagawa (1920 – September 15, 2007) was an American sociologist and demographer who worked as a professor at the University of Chicago and became president of the Population Association of America and chair of the U.S. Census Bureau's Advisory Committee on Population Statistics.[1] She is known for her book with Philip Hauser, Differential Mortality in the United States: A Study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology, which discovered systematic correlations between the death rates of Americans and their income and level of education.[1][2] Kitagawa wrote the first paper on decomposing statistics into components associated with the joint movement of the levels and returns to predictors.[3]
Kitagawa earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1951. She worked for a local urban research center, and then became an assistant professor at Chicago in 1954. She stayed there for the rest of her career, with a promotion to full professor in 1970, until her 1989 retirement. Her husband also worked at Chicago, as professor of history of religions and dean of the divinity school.[1]
^ abcdEvelyn M. Kitagawa, University of Chicago Sociologist, 1920-2007, University of Chicago, September 20, 2007, retrieved 2016-08-23. Reprinted as "Evelyn M. Kitagawa 1930-2007", ASA Footnotes, 36 (8), American Sociological Association, November 2008.
^Myers, George C. (September 1974), "Differential Mortality in the United States: A Study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology by Evelyn M. Kitagawa, Philip M. Hauser", Review, American Journal of Sociology, 80 (2): 532–534, doi:10.1086/225814, JSTOR 2777516.
^Kitagawa, Evelyn M. "Components of a difference between two rates." Journal of the american statistical association 50, no. 272 (1955): 1168-1194.
^The Footnotes obituary gives her birth date as 1930 but this appears to be a typo as it does not match her college graduation date.
^ abcAnne Rose Kitagawa. UO Today, 23 July 2012, No. 504. YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
Further readingedit
Deegan, Mary Jo (1995). "The Second Sex and the Chicago School: Women's Accounts, Knowledge, and Work 1945–1960". In Gusfield, Joseph R. (ed.). A Second Chicago School?: The Development of a Postwar American Sociology. University of Chicago Press. pp. 322–363. ISBN0-226-24939-5.
January 01, 1970
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