Michel Guillot
Associate Professor of Sociology
Off campus
mguillot@ssc.wisc.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interest Statement
Michel Guillot’s research focuses on mortality and formal demography. During the past three years, he has completed work on tempo effects in mortality, demographic measurement, and mortality dynamics in developing countries, in particular in former Soviet Central Asia. In the area of demographic measurement, Guillot has also developed a new method for estimating health expectancies in the absence of longitudinal data. In his work in former Soviet Central Asia, Guillot finds that adult mortality in Kyrgyzstan is lower than in Russia (a much richer country), in part because of cultural differences related to alcohol consumption. More generally, he finds that the post-Soviet health crisis in Kyrgyzstan is fundamentally different from the nature of the crisis in Russia. These findings have health policy implications in countries of the former USSR.
Selected Publications:
Guillot, Michel. 2003. "The Cross-sectional Average Length of Life (CAL): A Cross-sectional Mortality Measure that Reflects the Experience of Cohorts," Population Studies, Vol.57(1):41-54.
Murray, Christopher J.L., B.D. Ferguson, A.D. Lopez, M. Guillot, J.A. Salomon and O. Ahmad. 2003. "Modified Logit Life Table System: Principles, Empirical Validation and Application," Population Studies 57(2):1-18.
Heuveline, Patrick, Michel Guillot and Davidson R. Gwatkin. 2002. "The Uneven Tides of the Health Transition: An International Comparison of Mortality Patterns and National Income Levels," Social Science and Medicine, Vol.55(2): 313-22.
Guillot, Michel. 2002. "The Dynamics of the Population Sex Ratio in India, 1971-96," Population Studies, Vol. 56(1):51-63.
| Mortality in Central Asia |
CDE Research Theme Working Groups
Health and Mortality
Fertility/Families and Households
Data and Methodology