John Hajnal

John Hajnal

John Hajnal (born 26 November 1924) was Professor of Statistics, London School of Economics, 1975-86.

"Education:" University College School, London and Balliol College, Oxford.

Hajnal is known for identifying, in a landmark 1965 paper ["European Marriage Patterns in Perspective," in Glass and Eversley, eds., "Population in History, Essays in Historical Demography, 1965" ] the pattern of marriage of northwest Europe in which people historically married late and many adults remained single. This contrasts sharply with an a woldwide phenomenon of early and near-universal marriage.

Career

* Royal Commission on Population, 1944-48
* United Nations, New York, 1948-51
* Office of Population Research, Princeton University, 1951-53
* Manchester University, 1953-57
* London School of Economics, 1957-86 (reader, 1966-75, professor 1975-86)
* Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1974-75
* Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University, 1981

He is a member of the International Statistical Institute and was elected FBA in 1966.

References

* Who's Who, 2006


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