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10 Facts About Michael Teitelbaum

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Michael S Teitelbaum was born on January 21,1944 and is a demographer and the former Vice President of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation in New York City.

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Michael Teitelbaum is Senior Research Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School.

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Michael Teitelbaum publishes in both the popular and academic press on demographic trends, especially fertility and international migration and their causes and consequences.

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Michael Teitelbaum joined the Alfred P Sloan Foundation as a program director and became Vice President of this institution in 2007.

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Michael Teitelbaum has produced an array of works on global and national demographic developments, focused on both fertility behavior and on international migration.

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Michael Teitelbaum observed that passionate debates about feared "shortages" of US scientists and engineers were being conducted without rigorous data and information.

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Michael Teitelbaum realized that universities and scientific research institutes were vastly expanding the hiring of postdocs often for long periods but with little likelihood of a career path in research.

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Michael Teitelbaum initiated a Sloan Foundation grants program to improve data collection and analysis about postdocs, and provided start-up support for the National Postdoctoral Association, founded in 2003 and now based in Washington, DC.

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Michael Teitelbaum has brought historical approaches to the understanding of labor market conditions for scientists and engineers in the United States.

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Michael Teitelbaum suggests that the panics that ensued frequently lead to boom and bust cycles that are not healthy for scientific research, nor for the economic well-being of scientists and their research institutions.