ABSTRACT
M ark R. Montgomery (Cochair) is professor of economics at the State Uni versity of New York, Stony Brook, and senior associate at the Population Council. He has also served as senior fellow in the Department of Geography and Plan ning at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and as assistant professor at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University. He was a member of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Committee on Population and has served on numer ous other NRC committees. He participated in a Committee on Population study on reproductive health in developing countries and an Institute of Medicine study on unintended pregnancies. His research includes analyses of social networks and diffusion processes in Africa and Asia; research on social learning, mortal ity, and children’s schooling; and research on the link between urban growth and economic growth (for the 1986 National Academy of Sciences report, Population Growth and Economic Development: Policy Questions). He earned a B.A. de gree from the University of North Carolina and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
