Colter Mitchell

Colter Mitchell

Dr. Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Currently his research focuses on the relationship between attitudes, values and beliefs on family, religious and educational behavior both within the United States and internationally. One aspect of his dissertation looked at Developmental Idealism's connection to modernization theory across the domains of wealth, development and education. He also investigates the relationship between genes and social environment in family formation outcomes.











UN Award

Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi wins 2011 United Nations Population Award

Recent Events

Symposium on Globalization of Modernization Theory: Clashes of Modernities and Moralities, June 8-10, 2010, U of M

Taeuber Award

Arland Thornton receives Irene B. Taeuber Award at 2011 PAA Annual Meetings

Reading History Sideways

The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton

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Developmental Idealism
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan