David Lindstrom received his PhD degree in sociology with specializations in demography and statistics from the University of Chicago in 1995. He is a Professor of Sociology, a core faculty associate of the Population Studies and Training Center, and former director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Graduate School. Lindstrom teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, survey research, and migration. His research examines the determinants and consequences of migration in economically developing societies, the transition into adulthood, and the changing dynamics of reproductive health and behavior. Lindstrom is director of the Mesoamerican Migration Project (MMP), and he directed the Jimma Longitudinal Family Survey of Youth (JLFSY) in Ethiopia. He has had research grants from NIH, NSF, the Packard Foundation, the Compton Foundation and RAND.
Lindstrom has published his research in Demography, Population Studies, Social Forces, International Migration Review, Studies in Family Planning and Social Sciences and Medicine, among other journals.
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Lindstrom, David P., Ida Sahlu, Tefera Belachew, and Mulusew Gerbaba.
"Life Expectations in Early Adolescence and the Timing of First Sex and Marriage: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey in Ethiopia." 2021.
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Lindstrom, David P., Anairis Hernández and Silvia Giorguli.
"Migration, Family Formation and Fertility in the Americas." Int Migr Rev, 2021.
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Harling, Guy, Mamadou Bountogo, Ali Sié, Till Bärnighausen, David P. Lindstrom.
"Non-verbal response cards reduce socially desirable reporting of violence in adolescents in rural Burkina Faso: a randomized controlled trial." 2021.
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| Lindstrom, David P. "Mexican Migrant Integration in the United States, 1965–2015." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 684, no. 1, 2019, pp. 85-104. |
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Lindstrom, David P., and Kathryn Klaas.
"Migrant Integration and the Health Status of Mexico-U.S. Migrants." Migración y Salud/Migration and Health 2019, 2019, pp. 17-34.
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| Lindstrom, David P., Liu, Mao‐Mei, Jira, Challi. "The Role of Parents and Family Networks in Adolescent Health‐Seeking in Ethiopia." Journal of Marriage and Family, 2019. |
| Lindstrom, D. P. "How Representative Are Snowball Samples? Using the Ethnosurvey to Study Guatemala-U.S. Migration." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 666, no. 1, 2016, pp. 64-76. |
| Reda, Ayalu A, Lindstrom, David. "Recent trends in the timing of first sex and marriage among young women in Ethiopia." APS, vol. 28, no. 0, 2014, pp. 1157. |
| Belachew, Tefera, Lindstrom, David, Hadley, Craig, Gebremariam, Abebe, Kasahun, Wondwosen, Kolsteren, Patrick. "Food insecurity and linear growth of adolescents in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia." Nutrition Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2013, pp. 55. |
| Belachew, Tefera, Lindstrom, David, Gebremariam, Abebe, Hogan, Dennis, Lachat, Carl, Huybregts, Lieven, Kolsteren, Patrick. "Food Insecurity, Food Based Coping Strategies and Suboptimal Dietary Practices of Adolescents in Jimma Zone Southwest Ethiopia." PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 3, 2013, pp. e57643. |
| Lindstrom, David P., Hattori, Megan Klein, Belachew, Tefera, Tessema, Fasil. "Lifting the Curtain on the Conditions of Sexual Initiation Among Youth in Ethiopia." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 50, no. 6, 2012, pp. 614-620. |
| Belachew, Tefera, Lindstrom, David, Gebremariam, Abebe, Jira, Challi, Hattori, Megan, Lachat, Carl, Huybregts, Lieven, Kolsteren, Patrick. "Predictors of chronic food insecurity among adolescents in Southwest Ethiopia: a longitudinal study." BMC Public Health, vol. 12, no. 1, 2012, pp. 604. |
| Belachew, Tefera, Hadley, Craig, Lindstrom, David, Getachew, Yehenew, Duchateau, Luc, Kolsteren, Patrick. "Food insecurity and age at menarche among adolescent girls in Jimma Zone Southwest Ethiopia: a longitudinal study." Reprod Biol Endocrinol, vol. 9, no. 1, 2011, pp. 125. |
| Belachew, Tefera, Hadley, Craig, Lindstrom, David, Gebremariam, Abebe, Lachat, Carl, Kolsteren, Patrick. "Food insecurity, school absenteeism and educational attainment of adolescents in Jimma Zone Southwest Ethiopia: a longitudinal study." Nutrition Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 2011, pp. 29. |
| Belachew, T., Hadley, C., Lindstrom, D., Gebremariam, A., Michael, K. W., Getachew, Y., Lachat, C., Kolsteren, P. "Gender Differences in Food Insecurity and Morbidity Among Adolescents in Southwest Ethiopia." PEDIATRICS, vol. 127, no. 2, 2011, pp. e398-e405. |
| Hadley, Craig, Linzer, Drew A., Belachew, Tefera, Mariam, Abebe Gebre, Tessema, Fasil, Lindstrom, David. "Household capacities, vulnerabilities and food insecurity: Shifts in food insecurity in urban and rural Ethiopia during the 2008 food crisis." Social Science & Medicine, vol. 73, no. 10, 2011, pp. 1534-1542. |
| Mariam, AG, Hailemariam, A, Belachew, T, Michael, KW, Lindstrom, D. "Support for the continuation of female genital mutilation among adolescents in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia." Ethiop J Health Sci, vol. 19, no. 2, 2011. |
| Hadley, Craig, Belachew, Tefera, Lindstrom, David, Tessema, Fasil. "The shape of things to come? household dependency ratio and adolescent nutritional status in rural and urban Ethiopia." Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., vol. 144, no. 4, 2011, pp. 643-652. |
| Lindstrom, David P., Belachew, Tefera, Hadley, Craig, Hattori, Megan Klein, Hogan, Dennis, Tessema, Fasil. "Nonmarital Sex and Condom Knowledge among Ethiopian Young People: Improved Estimates Using a Nonverbal Response Card." Studies in Family Planning, vol. 41, no. 4, 2010, pp. 251-262. |
| Lindstrom, D. P., Lopez Ramirez, A. "Pioneers and Followers: Migrant Selectivity and the Development of U.S. Migration Streams in Latin America." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 630, no. 1, 2010, pp. 53-77. |
| Hadley, Craig, Belachew, Tefera, Lindstrom, David, Tessema, Fasil. "THE FORGOTTEN POPULATION? YOUTH, FOOD INSECURITY, AND RISING PRICES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS." NAPA Bulletin, vol. 32, no. 1, 2009, pp. 77-91. |
| Hadley, Craig, Lindstrom, David, Belachew, Tefera, Tessema, Fasil. "Ethiopian Adolescents' Attitudes and Expectations Deviate from Current Infant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 43, no. 3, 2008, pp. 253-259. |
| Hadley, Craig, Lindstrom, David, Tessema, Fasil, Belachew, Tefara. "Gender bias in the food insecurity experience of Ethiopian adolescents." Social Science & Medicine, vol. 66, no. 2, 2008, pp. 427-438. |
| Lindstrom, David P., Kiros, Gebre-Egziabher. "The impact of infant and child death on subsequent fertility in Ethiopia." Popul Res Policy Rev, vol. 26, no. 1, 2007, pp. 31-49. |
| Biratu, BT, Lindstrom, DP. "The influence of husbands' approval on women's use of prenatal care: Results from Yirgalem and Jimma towns, south west Ethiopia." Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, vol. 20, no. 2, 2007. |
| Lindstrom, David P., Giorguli Saucedo, Silvia. "The interrelationship of fertility, family maintenance and Mexico-U.S. Migration." Demographic Research, vol. 17, 2007, pp. 821-858. |
| Lindstrom, David P., Hernández, Coralia Herrera. "Internal Migration and Contraceptive Knowledge and Use in Guatemala." IFPP, vol. 32, no. 03, 2006, pp. 146-153. |
| Lindstrom, David P, Muñoz-Franco, Elisa. "Migration and maternal health services utilization in rural Guatemala." Social Science & Medicine, vol. 63, no. 3, 2006, pp. 706-721. |
| Lindstrom, David P., Munoz-Franco, Elisa. "Migration and the Diffusion of Modern Contraceptive Knowledge and Use in Rural Guatemala." Studies in Family Planning, vol. 36, no. 4, 2005, pp. 277-288. |
| Lindstrom, David P., Paz, Carlos Brambila. "Alternative theories of the relationship of schooling and work to family formation: Evidence from Mexico." Biodemography and Social Biology, vol. 48, no. 3-4, 2001, pp. 278-297. |
| Lindstrom, David P., Lauster, Nathanael. "Local Economic Opportunity and the Competing Risks of Internal and U.S. Migration in Zacatecas, Mexico1." International Migration Review, vol. 35, no. 4, 2001, pp. 1232-1256. |
| Lindstrom, David P., Berhanu, Betemariam. "The effects of breastfeeding and birth spacing on infant and early childhood mortality in Ethiopia." Biodemography and Social Biology, vol. 47, no. 1-2, 2000, pp. 1-17. |
| Lindstrom, David P. "The Role of Contraceptive Supply and Demand in Mexican Fertility Decline: Evidence from a Microdemographic Study." Population Studies, vol. 52, no. 3, 1998, pp. 255-274. |
I am a Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Associate of the Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC). I am founder and director of the master’s program in Social Data Analytics and the undergraduate certificate program in Migration Studies at Brown. I have served as Chair of the Department of Sociology, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Graduate School, and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. My research examines the determinants and consequences of migration in economically developing societies, adolescent health and sexual behavior, and the changing dynamics of reproductive health and behavior. In Mexico and Guatemala, I have studied the determinants and consequences of migration, the interrelationship between migration and stages of the family life cycle, and migration and health. In Ethiopia, I have been engaged in research on adolescent nutrition, food insecurity, reproductive health and behavior, and the transition into adulthood. Throughout my career I have been actively engaged in primary data collection and I have directed surveys in Mexico, Guatemala and Ethiopia. I have published 25 articles and book chapters using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP) and other Latin American survey data that I have collected. I am a Co-Investigator with Silvia Giorguli and Jessica Nájera on a survey of Venezuelan, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants in major destination areas in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Chile funded by the Interamerican Development Bank, and I am a consultant on a survey of Venezuelan, Cuban, Dominican and Peruvian migrants in Uruguay. I have long-standing ties with investigators at El Colegio de Mexico, and I have taught short courses on event history analysis and the use the MMP and LAMP data. Silvia Giorguli, Jessica Nájera and I organized and led two 5-day intensive training institutes on migration at El Colegio de México for young migration scholars from across Latin America. Each of the institutes resulted in edited volumes on migration in the Americas.
With support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Compton Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, NIAID, and NSF, I directed a long-term training and research program with Jimma University, Ethiopia. The international interdisciplinary research team was engaged in a program of policy-relevant, scientific research on adolescent life-course transitions, physical and reproductive health, and sexual risk taking. The centerpiece of the project was the Jimma Longitudinal Family Survey of Youth (JLFSY) that tracked an initial cohort of 2,100 13-17 year-old youth over 8 years with four survey waves. I have published 35 articles and book chapters, co-edited a book, and written or edited 45 policy briefs from the JLFSY and other Ethiopian survey data. The JLFSY policy briefs inspired Jimma University to adopt the production of policy briefs as a requirement for all social science and health research at the university with the JLFSY policy briefs serving as a model.
Inter-American Development Bank. Social Conditions of Migrant Communities in Major Latin American Destinations (RG-T3534-P004), Principal Investigators, Giorguli, Lindstrom, Nájera, Prieto, (7/2020-6/2022), $200,000 (El Colegio de México).
NIH, R01, Public Use Data on Mexican Immigration, Principal Investigators Douglas Massey (Princeton University), Consultant Jorge Durand (University of Guadalajara), Consultant Silvia Giorguli (El Colegio de Mexico), Sub-contract PI David P. Lindstrom, (4/2015-3/2020), $3,982,544, Brown subcontract $409,810.
Packard Foundation, Understanding the Early Determinants of Adolescent Sexual Knowledge and Practices: Lessons Learned from the Jimma Longitudinal Family Survey of Youth, Principal Investigator David Lindstrom, (1/2014-12/2016, no cost extension to 12/2017), $250,000.
Packard Foundation, Partnership in Improving Adolescent Reproductive Health in Ethiopia, Principal Investigator David Lindstrom, Co-investigator Craig Hadley, (8/2008-7/2011, no cost extension to 6/2013), $490,000.
NIH, R03, Analyzing the Effectiveness of a Non-Verbal Response Card: Evidence from Ethiopia, Principal Investigator David Lindstrom, Co-investigator Craig Hadley, (7/2008-6/2010, no cost extension to 8/2011), $160,000.
Packard Foundation, Research for Improving Adolescent Reproductive Health in Ethiopia, Principal Investigator David Lindstrom, Co-investigator Dennis Hogan, (8/2004-7/2007), $450,000.
Compton Foundation, Capacity Building for Policy Relevant Population Study in Ethiopia, Principal Investigator David Lindstrom, Co-investigator Dennis Hogan, (7/2003-6/2005), $35,000.
Tinker Foundation, Predissertation Field Research Grants for Research on Latin America (Center Grant, Center for Latin American Studies), Principal Investigator David Lindstrom, (1/2002-12/2003), $20,000.
University of Pennsylvania/NIH, Subcontract, The Latin American Migration Project, Co-investigator David Lindstrom, (8/2002-2/2003), $9,346.
Packard Foundation, Research and Training Strategies for Improving Reproductive Health in Ethiopia, Principal Investigator David Lindstrom, Co-investigator Dennis Hogan, (8/2001-12/2004), $464,317.
NSF, The Determinants and Consequences of Migration in Guatemala, Principal Investigator David Lindstrom, (7/2001-6/2004), $149,590.
RAND, Land and Population Dynamics in Guatemala, Principal Investigator David Lindstrom, (12/2000-12/2001), $5,340.
NICHD, R01, Impact of Origin Communities on Mexican Migration to the U.S., Principal Investigator David Lindstrom (7/1998-6/2001), $215,199.
Nájera Aguirre, Jessica Natalie, Luciana Gandini, Silvia Elena Giorguli Saucedo, and David P. Lindstrom (eds.), (forthcoming). Migraciones en Centroamérica y México. Mexico City: El Colegio de México and Universidad Autónoma de México.
Lindstrom, David P. and Anairis Hernández Jabalera. 2022. “Origen familiar, retorno a la escuela, y logros educativos y ocupacionales.” In M.E. Zavala de Cosío, and P. Sebille (eds.). La Odisea de las generaciones: de las historias de vida a los territorios. Mexico City: El Colegio de México (forthcoming).
Lindstrom, David P., Ida Sahlu, Tefera Belachew, and Mulusew Gerbaba. 2022. “Life Expectations in Early Adolescence and the Timing of First Sex and Marriage: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey in Ethiopia.” Reproductive Health 18(Supplement 2).
Harling, Guy, Mamadou Bountogo, Ali Sié, Till Bärnighausen, David P. Lindstrom. 2021. “Non-verbal response cards reduce socially desirable reporting of violence in adolescents in rural Burkina Faso: a randomized controlled trial.” Journal of Adolescent Health 68:914-921.
Lindstrom, David P., Anairis Hernández and Silvia Giorguli. 2021. “Migration, Family Formation and Fertility in the Americas.” International Migration Review 55(1):280-314. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0197918320923353
Sinaga, Makeda, Melese Sinaga Teshome, David Lindstrom, Tefera Belachew. 2021. “Development and Validation of Body Fat Percent Prediction Equation for Screening Obesity in Adults.” Clinical Nutrition ESPEN 43:487-494.
Sinaga, Makeda, Melese Sinaga, Tilhun Yemane, Elsah Tegene, David Lindstrom, Tefera Belachew. 2021. “Ethnic Specific Body Fat Percent Prediction Equation as Surrogate Marker of Obesity in Ethiopian Adults.” Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 40(17) https://doi.org/10.1186/s41043-021-00224-3
Sinaga, Makeda, Melese Sinaga Teshome, Radiet Kidane, Tilahun Yemane, Elsah Tegene, David Lindstrom, and Tefera Belachew. 2019. “Metabolic Effects of Fasting and Animal Source Food Avoidance in an Ethiopian Cohort.” Scientific Reports 9:16964 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53185-3.
Lindstrom, David P., and Kathryn Klaas. 2019. “Migrant Integration and the Health Status of Mexico-U.S. Migrants.” Pp. 17-34 in Migración y Salud/Migration and Health 2019, National Population Council (CONAPO) Mexico, Mexico City.
White, Michael J. and David P. Lindstrom. 2019. “Internal Migration.” Pp. 383-419 in Dudley L. Poston and Michael Micklin (eds.), Handbook of Population, 2nd Edition. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Sinaga, Makeda, Tilahun Yemane, Elsah Tegene, Tolassa Wakayo, David Lindstrom, and Tefera Belachew. 2019. “Performance of Newly Developed Body Mass Index Cut-off for Diagnosing Obesity among Ethiopian Adults.” Journal of Physiological Anthropology 38:14 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40101-019-0205-2
Lindstrom, David P. 2019. “Mexican Migrant Integration in the United States 1965-2015.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 684:85-104.
Lindstrom, David P., Mao-Mei Liu and Challi Jira. 2019. “The Role of Parents and Family Networks in Adolescent Health-Seeking in Ethiopia.” Journal of Marriage and Family 81(4):830-846.
Nájera Aguirre, Jessica Natalie, David P. Lindstrom, and Silvia Elena Giorguli Saucedo (eds.), 2019. Migraciones en las Américas. Mexico City: El Colegio de México.
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| 1995 | PhD | University of Chicago |
| 1994 | MA | University of Chicago |
| 1990 | MA | University of Chicago |
| 1983 | BA | University of Wisconsin at Madison |
Candidate for the Presidency of the Eastern Sociological Society, 2020.
Candidate for the Presidency of the Eastern Sociological Society, 2017.
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Mexican Academy of Sciences and Mexico-United States Science Foundation, July 2009.
Presidential Fellow, Salzburg Seminar Session on Involuntary Migration, Salzburg, Austria, 1995.
Population Council Dissertation Fellowship, 1993.
Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Demographic Research in a Developing Country, 1991-92.
Graduated with Distinction and Honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983.
American Sociological Association
American Statistical Association
Population Association of America
| SOC 1100 - Introductory Statistics for Social Research |
| SOC 1281 - Migration in the Americas |
| SOC 2020 - Multivariate Statistical Methods II |
| SOC 2240 - Event History Analysis |
