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David Lam is Director of the Institute for Social Research, Professor of Economics, and Research Professor in the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.  His research analyzes the interaction of economics and demography in developing countries, including the economics of fertility, marriage, and aging. He has worked in Brazil and South Africa, studying links between education, labor markets, and income inequality. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town, where his collaborations include the Cape Area Panel Study, a longitudinal survey supported by NIH.  He was president of the Population Association of America and served on the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the UN Population Division, and the South Africa Presidency.  He was co-chair of IUSSP’s Panel on Population and Poverty 2003-2006 and was Population and Development theme convenor for the 2013 IUSSP international conference.