Luis Rosero-Bixby
Universidad de Costa Rica
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Primary Section: 53, Social and Political Sciences Membership Type:
International Member
(elected 2013)
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Biosketch
Luis Rosero-Bixby is a Latin American demographer, retired professor of the University of Costa Rica, School of Statistics and Institute of Health Research (INISA), and founder and director of the Central American Population Studies Center in this university. Currently he is visiting research associate at the Department of Demography of University of California, Berkeley. Rosero-Bixby was born and grew up in Quito, Ecuador, where obtained a degree in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University. In Costa Rica obtained a two-year diploma in formal demography from the Latin American Demography Center (CELADE). He received a master in public health and a PhD in Population Planning from the University of Michigan. In addition of serving as faculty at the University of Costa Rica since 1977, he was Research Associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University (1993-97), Bernard Berelson Fellow at the Population Council in New York City (2000-1), visiting professor in several universities, and Prometeo Researcher of the Government of Ecuador (2011-12). Rosero-Bixby is founder member of the Costa Rican Academy of Sciences (1994-), he also was Wellcome Trust fellow (2004-9), and he received the "Outstanding Scientist 2008" award from the Ministry of Science of Costa Rica and the "2009 researcher of the year" award from the University of Costa Rica.
Research Interests
The impact of public interventions to modify reproductive and health behaviors. The role of innovation diffusion in the fertility transition in Latin America. Equity on health care access and how to measure it. Recent trends of childlessness in Latin America. Healthy aging and its biomarkers. Consequences of population aging. The dynamics of Covid-19 pandemic.
