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Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi

Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi is a guest research scholar in the Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. He is also an Academy Fellow at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in Demography from the Australian National University (ANU), is a Professor of Demography at the University of Tehran (on leave), and an Honorary Professor at the School of Demography at ANU. His main research areas include fertility and family change, international and forced/refugee migration, Muslim demography, and population policies. His long-term research on Iran’s sharp fertility decline culminated in the 2009 prize-winning book (with McDonald and Hosseini-Chavoshi) titled, Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction. Abbasi-Shavazi is a founding member and past President of the Asian Population Association, and a council member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (2022-2025). He received several scientific prizes including the 2011 United Nations Population Award.

Publications

Binstock, Georgina, Arland Thornton, M.J. Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Yu Xie, and K.M. Yount. 2013. "Influences on the knowledge and beliefs of ordinary people about developmental hierarchies." International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 54(4): 325-344.

Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Colter Mitchell, Mansoor Moaddel, Yu Xie, Li-Shou Yang, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, et al. 2012. "Knowledge and Beliefs about National Development and Developmental Hierarchies: the Viewpoints of Ordinary People in Thirteen Countries." Social Science Research, 41(5): 1053-1068.

Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal, Abbas Askari-Nodoushan, and Arland Thornton. 2012. "Family Life and Developmental Idealism in Yazd, Iran." Demographic Research, 26: 207-238.

Arland Thornton, Georgina Binstock, Kathryn Yount, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha Ghimire, and Yu Xie. 2010. "International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework." PSC Research Report No. 10-713. June 2010.

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