George S. Masnick, Ph.D. — Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Brown University, 1970
M.A., Cornell University, 1966
B.A., Cornell University, 1965

Past Positions

Joint Center for Housing Studies
Harvard University
Senior Research Fellow (1987-2020)
MIT/Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
(formerly the Joint Center for Urban Studies)
Research Associate (1978-1987)
Analysis and Forecasting, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
President and Co-founder (1983-1987)
Department of Behavioral Sciences
Harvard School of Public Health
Associate Professor (1980-1984)
Department of Population Sciences
Harvard School of Public Health
Associate Professor (1974-1980)
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
Associate Professor (1974-1979)
Harvard Center for Population Studies
Harvard University
Research Affiliate (1974-1984)
Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor (1970-1974)

Publications and Writings

Books

George S. Masnick and Mary Jo Bane, The Nation's Families (Boston: Auburn House, 1980.)
Gregory Jackson, George S. Masnick, Roger Bolton, Susan Bartlett and John Pitkin, Regional Diversity: Growth in the United States, 1960-1990 (Boston: Auburn House, 1981.)
William C. Apgar, H. James Brown, George S. Masnick and John R. Pitkin, The Housing Outlook: 1980-1990 (New York: Praeger, 1985).
William C. Apgar, Jr., George S. Masnick and Nancy Mcardle, Housing in America: 1970-2000 (Harvard University, Joint Center for Housing Studies, 1991)

Book Chapters

George S. Masnick and Solomon H. Katz, "Trends in Fertility in a Northern Alaska Community," in R.J. Shephard and S. Itoh (eds.), Circumpolar Health: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium, Yellowknife, NWT(Toronto: University of Toronto Press,1976).
George S. Masnick, "Fecundability and Contraceptive Opportunities," in Henry W. Mosley (ed.), Nutrition and Human Reproduction (New York: Plenum Press, 1978), pp. 313-323.
George S. Masnick, "The Continuity of Birth Expectation Data with Historical Trends in Cohort Parity Distributions: Implications for Fertility in the 1980s," in Gerry Hendershot and Paul Placek (eds.), Predicting Fertility: Demographic Studies of Birth Expectations (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1981.)
George S. Masnick, "Demographic Influences on the Labor Force in New England," in John C. Hoy and Melvin H. Bernstein (eds.), New England's Vital Resource: The Labor Force (Washington: American Council on Education, 1982.)
John R. Pitkin and George S. Masnick, "The Relationship between Heads and Non-heads in the Household Population: An Extension of the Headship Rate Method of Household Projections," in J. Bongaarts, T. Burch and K. Wachter (eds.), Family Demography: Methods and Their Application (London: Oxford University Press, 1987).
George S. Masnick, "The Nation's Children: A Demographic Profile" in Mark Schlesinger et. al. (eds.), Children in a Changing Health Care System (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).
George S. Masnick, John R. Pitkin and John Brennan, "Cohort Housing Trends in a Local Housing Market: The Case of Southern California," in Dowell Myers (ed.), Housing Demography (Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990).
George S. Masnick, "Home Ownership and Social Inequality in the United States," in Karin Kurz and Hans-Peter Blossfeld (eds.), Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004).

Journal Articles

George C. Myers, Robert McGinnis and George Masnick, "The Duration of Residence Approach to a Dynamic Stochastic Model of Internal Migration: A Test of the Axiom of Cumulative Inertia," Eugenics Quarterly, 14 (June 1967), pp. 121-126. Reprinted in a Memorial Volume of the 30 most cited articles published in Social Biology (formerly Eugenics Quarterly), 29:3-4 (1982), 387-392, DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1982.9988508
George C. Myers and George S. Masnick, "The Migration Experience of New York Puerto Ricans: A Perspective on Return," The International Migration Review, 2 (Spring 1968), pp. 80-90.
George S. Masnick, "Employment Status and Retrospective and Prospective Migration in the United States," Demography, 5 (1968), pp.79-85.
George S. Masnick and Robert G. Potter, "Contraceptive Acceptance and Pregnancy: A Matrix Approach to the Analysis of Competing Risks," Population Studies, 23 (July 1969), pp. 267-277.
A. Perez, P. Vela, R. Potter and G.S. Masnick, "Timing and Sequence of Resuming Ovulation and Menstruation after Childbirth," Population Studies, 25 (November 1971), pp. 491-503.
Robert G. Potter and George S. Masnick, "The Contraceptive Effectiveness of Early vs. Delayed Insertion of the Intrauterine Device," Demography, 8 (November 1971), pp. 507-517.
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., G. S. Masnick and Susan A. Ricketts, "How Can Family Planning Programs Delay Repeat Teenage Pregnancies?", Family Planning Perspectives, 4 (July 1972), pp. 54-60.
Alfredo Perez, Patricio Vela, George S. Masnick and Robert G. Potter, "First Ovulation After Childbirth: The Effect of Breastfeeding," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 114 (December 1972), pp.1041-1047.
Robert G. Potter, George S. Masnick and Murray Gendell, "Postamenorrheic vs. Postpartum Strategies of Contraception," Demography, 10 (February 1973), pp. 99-112.
George S. Masnick, "The Future of Population Growth," A Review Symposium Article, Demography, 11 (May 1974), pp. 337-341.
George S. Masnick and Solomon H. Katz, "Adaptive Childbearing in a North Slope Eskimo Community," Human Biology, 48 (February 1976), pp. 37-58. Reprinted in Bernice A. Kaplan (ed.), Anthropological Studies of Human Fertility (Detroit: Wayne State University Press).
George S. Masnick and Joseph A. McFalls, Jr., "A New Perspective on the 20th Century American Fertility Swing," Journal of Family History, 1 (Winter 1977), pp. 217-244.
George S. Masnick, "Comment: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of the Economic Value of Children in Java and Nepal," Current Anthropology (June 1978).
George S. Masnick and Joseph A. McFalls, Jr., "Those Perplexing U.S. Fertility Swings: A New Perspective on a 20th Century Puzzle," PRB Report (November 1978), Population Reference Bureau.
George S. Masnick, "The Demographic Impact of Breastfeeding: A Critical Review," Human Biology, 51 (May 1979), pp. 109-125.
Joseph A. McFalls, Jr. and George S. Masnick, "Birth Control and the Fertility of the U.S. Black Population, 1880 to 1980," Journal of Family History, v.6 (Spring 1981), pp. 89-100.
Joseph A. Mcfalls, Jr. and George S. Masnick, "Contraception, Induced Abortion and Fertility among U.S. Blacks from 1880 to 1980: A Challenge to the Conventional View," The Social Sciences Forum, v.3 (1980-81), pp. 31-45.
Gregory A. Jackson and George S. Masnick, "Take Another Look at Regional U.S. Growth," Harvard Business Review, (March-April 1983), pp. 76-87.
George S. Masnick, "The Demography of New England: Policy Issues for the Balance of this Century," New England Journal of Public Policy, (Winter/Spring 1985).
George S. Masnick, "Employment and Population Growth of New England Counties," Monitor: a Publication of the New England Economic Project, v.4, no. 2 (August 1987).
George S. Masnick and William C. Apgar, Jr., "The New England Housing Outlook," Connection: New England's Journal of Higher Education and Economic Development, v. II, No. 3 (Fall/ Winter 1987).
William C. Apgar, Jr. and George S. Masnick, "Some Simple Facts About the Demand for New Residential Construction in the 1990s,"Journal of Real Estate Research, v.6, No.3, (Fall 1991).
George S. Masnick, "America's Shifting Population," Changing Landscape, v. 2, #2 (2001), pp.8-15.
George S. Masnick, "The New Demographics of Housing," Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 13, #2 (2002), pp.275-321.
George S. Masnick, Zhu Xiao Di, and Eric S. Belsky, "Emerging Cohort Trends in Housing Debt and Home Equity," Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 17, #3 (2006), pp. 491-527.

Reports

George S. Masnick, Observing the Modern Fertility Pattern: An Essay in Methodology, Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University.
Samuel Z. Klausner, George S. Masnick and Yoav Santo, "Thinking Sociologically about Transportation and Society," report submitted to the National Academy of Engineering, Committee on Transportation.
George S. Masnick and Joseph A. McFalls, Jr., The Philadelphia Fertility Study, report submitted to National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (March 1976).
George S. Masnick, Gary Littman, S. Krishnamoorthy, Barbara Wiget, Demographic Aspects of the Academic Labor Market, report submitted to the Ford Foundation, 1978.
John R. Pitkin and George S. Masnick, "Projections of Housing Consumption in the U.S., 1980 to 2000, by a Cohort Method," Annual Housing Survey Studies No. 9 (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, June 1980.)
John R. Pitkin and George S. Masnick, "Linking Projections of Households with Housing Consumption: An Exploration of Alternative Series," prepared for Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 1981.
John R. Pitkin and George S. Masnick, "The Housing of Young Adults and the Elderly: An Analysis of 1960 to 1970 Changes," prepared for Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 1981.
George S. Masnick and John Pitkin, "Population and Household Projections: Houston and Boston SMSAs," progress report submitted to Interchange, September 9, 1981.
George S. Masnick and John R. Pitkin, "Cohort Projections of School Age Populations for States and Regions: 1985 to 2000," prepared for The School Finance Project at the National Institute of Education, 1982.
George S. Masnick and John R. Pitkin, The Changing Population of States and Regions: Analysis and Projections, 1970 to 2000 (Cambridge, Mass.: The Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1982.)
Fred C. Doolittle, Greg Jackson, George S. Masnick, and Phil Clay, Future Boston (Cambridge, Mass.: The Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1982.)
John R. Pitkin and George S. Masnick, "Alternative Models for Cohort Methods of Projecting Housing Consumption," prepared for Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., May 1983.
John R. Pitkin and George S. Masnick, "Households and Housing Consumption in the United States, 1985 to 2000: Projections by a Cohort Method," prepared for Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., May 1986.
George S. Masnick, William C. Apgar, Jr. and H. James Brown, "Evaluation of the Potential Housing Demand Projection Model," report prepared for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, December 1992.
George S. Masnick, "A Demographer's Perspective on Housing Affordability in the United States at the End of the 20th Century," background paper prepared for The Millennial Housing Commission, United States Congress, December 2001.
George S. Masnick and Zhu Xiao Di, "Projections of U.S. Households by Race/Hispanic Origin, Age Family Type and Tenure to 2020: A Sensitivity Analysis," Issue Papers on Demographic Trends Important to Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, February 2003.
George S. Masnick, "Homeownership Rate Differences Between Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites: Regional Variation at the County Level," Prepared for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research through Abt Associates Inc., March 2006.
Contributing author to State of the Nation's Housing, a report produced annually since the mid-1980s by the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University.

Working Papers and Research Notes

George S. Masnick, Barbara Wiget, John R. Pitkin and Dowell Myers, "A Life Course Perspective on the Downturn in U.S. Fertility," Working Paper No. 106, Center for Population Studies, Harvard University (October 1978).
George S. Masnick, "The Demographic Factor in Household Growth," Working Paper No. W83-3, Joint Center for Urban Studies, revised May 1983.
George S. Masnick, "Assessing Population Projections for States and Regions: A Mid-Decade Review," Joint Center for Housing Studies of MIT and Harvard University, Working Paper W86-2.
George S. Masnick, "Changing Patterns of Interregional and Interstate Migration in the United States: 1970-1986," Joint Center for Housing Studies of MIT and Harvard University, Working Paper W86-4, revised December 1986.
Stuart A. Gabriel and George S. Masnick, "Interregional Migration in the United States: Estimates of a Logistic Model," Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies, Working Paper W88-3.
George S. Masnick, "U.S. Household Trends: The 1980s and Beyond", Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies, Working Paper W89-1.
George S. Masnick, "Migration Projections for States and Regions: 1985-2000," Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies, Working Paper W89-7.
George S. Masnick, "New Projections of Population and Households for States and Regions," Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies, Working Paper W89-9.
George S. Masnick, "New State Population Projections by Age," Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies, Working Paper W89-10.
George S. Masnick and Nancy McArdle, "Revised U.S. Household Projections: New Methods and New Assumptions", Working Paper W93-2, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University.
George S. Masnick and Nancy McArdle, "State Household Projections Based Upon Census Bureau P25-1111 Population Projections," Working Paper W94-4, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University.
George S. Masnick, "Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage and Household Growth in the U.S.: 1940-1995," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N96-1.
George S. Masnick, "Population Growth 1990 to 1995: Regional Differences and Components of Change," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N96-2.
George S. Masnick, Nancy McArdle, and William C. Apgar, Jr., "U.S. Household Trends: the 1990s and Beyond," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper W96-2.
George S. Masnick, "The Living Arrangements of Young Adults," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N96-4.
George S. Masnick, "The Consequences of Delayed Marriage and Remarriage on the Age Differences between Brides and Grooms," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N96-5.
George S. Masnick, "Citizenship and Homeownership Among Foreign Born Residents in the U.S.," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N97-1.
George S. Masnick, "Understanding the Minority Contribution to U.S. Owner Household Growth," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper W98-9.
George S. Masnick, Nancy McArdle and Eric Belsky, "A Critical Look at Rising Homeownership Rates in the United States Since 1994", Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper W99-2.
George S. Masnick and Zhu Xiao Di, "Updating and Extending the Joint Center Household Projections Using New Census Bureau Population Projections," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N00-1.
George S. Masnick, "Homeownership Trends and Racial Inequality in the United States in the 20th Century," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper W01-4.
George S. Masnick and Zhu Xiao Di, "Cohort Insights into the Influence of Education, Race and Family Structure on Homeownership Trends by Age: 1985 and 1995," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N01-1.
Zhu Xiao Di, Nancy McArdle and George S. Masnick, "Second Homes: What, How Many, Where, and Who," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N01-2.
George S, Masnick, Eric S. Belsky, and Zhu Xiao Di, "The Impact of New Census Bureau Interim National Population Projections on Projected Household Growth in the United States," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N04-1.
Zhu Xiao Di, Ruby Henry, Eric S. Belsky, and George S, Masnick, "The Impact of Minority Growth and Their Rising Household Income on Different Housing Markets," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper W05-5.
George S. Masnick and Eric S. Belsky, "Revised Interim Joint Center Household Projections Based Upon 1.2 Million Annual Net Immigrants," Joint Center for
Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N06-1.
George S. Masnick and Eric S. Belsky, "Addendum to Research Note N06-1: Hispanic Household Projections with Additional Tenure Detail by Age and Broad Family Type for Non-Hispanic White and Total Minority Households. Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Research Note N06-4.
George S. Masnick and Eric S. Belsky, "Household Projections in Retrospect and Prospect: Lessons Learned and Applied to New 2005-2025 Household Projections," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper W09-5.
George S. Masnick, Daniel McCue and Eric S. Belsky, "Updated 2010-2020 Household and New Home Demand Projections," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper W10-9, September 2010.
George Masnick, Abbe Will and Kermit Baker, "Housing Turnover by Older Owners: Implications for Home Improvement Spending as Baby Boomers Age into Retirement" Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper W11-4, March 2011.
Daniel McCue, George Masnick and Chris Herbert, "Assessing Households and Household Growth Estimates with Census Bureau Surveys," Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper W15-5, July 2015.

Presentations

Ralph B. Ginsberg, George S. Masnick, and Robert G. Potter, Jr., "Lactation and the Resumption of Ovulation in the Postpartum Period: An Example of a Non-homogeneous Stochastic Process, prepared for the session on "Mathematical Models in Demography, annual meetings of the American Statistical Association, Detroit, Michigan, 1970.
Mary Jo Bane and George Masnick, "The Nation's Families: 1960-1990: Diversity of Families and Households," paper presented to the National Research Forum on Family Issues of the White House Conference of Families, April 10, 1980.
George S. Masnick, "Historical Trends in Cohort Parity Distributions: Implications for Fertility in the 1980s," paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colo., Apr. 10-12, 1980. See more at: http://www.popline.org/node/498302 - sthash.Jk4DtFn6.dpuf
George S. Masnick, "Life Course Analysis: Models and Methods," paper prepared for Workshop on the Collection and Analysis of Life History Data, East/West Population Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 31-June 28, 1980.
George S. Masnick, "Discussion," The Direction of Fertility in the United States, Proceedings of a U.S. Census Bureau Conference, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, October 2-3, 2001, Alexandria, VA, pp. 181-182.
George S. Masnick and John R. Pitkin, "The Baby Boom and the Squeeze on Multi-generational Households," paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 14, 1983.
George S. Masnick and John R. Pitkin, "The Demographic Composition of the Single-Family Housing Stock: A First Look at the Trends from 1960 to 1980," presented to the Housing Futures Program Workshop, The Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard University, June 1983.
George S. Masnick, "Some Comments on the Well-Being of Cities, prepared for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Northeast Summit Conference, Worcester, Massachusetts, March 25, 1983.
George S. Masnick, "The Expected Rapid Aging of New England's Vital Resource- Its Labor Force: Context and Consequences," presented at the Regional Public Policy Conference on the Retraining Needs of Mid-Career Workers in New England, John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, April 1984.
George Masnick, Panel Discussion Trends in Housing Demands/Preferences-Prepared Remarks, Taxing Times For Housing: Owning a Home in the 1980s and Beyond, Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the National Associations of Realtors, 1985.
George S. Masnick, "The Demographic Structure of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area in the Year 2050: Forecast or Fantasy," testimony before The National Capital Planning Commission, Washington, D.C., December 6, 1985.
George Masnick, "The Changing Composition of the US Population by Age, Race/Hispanic Origin and Nativity," presented at the National Press Foundation -Fannie Mae Foundation, Housing and Community Development Fellows Program, Housing and Neighborhoods Conference, Washington, DC, September 29-October 1, 1999.

Miscellaneous Writings

George Masnick, Book Review, _ Social Indicators, 1976 , U.S Bureau of the Census. Washington, D.C.:Dept. of Commerce, 1977, and America in the Seventies: Some Social Indicators _ Conrad Taueber (ed., vo. 435 of the _ Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences _, Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, January 1978. viii pp. 923-924.
George S. Masnick, "Some Big City Populations Will Not Grow," Outlook: The Magazine of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, May/June 1986.
George S. Masnick, "New England Loses Migrants," Monitor: a Publication of the New England Economic Project, Spring 1986.
George S. Masnick and Joshua M. Kim, "The Decline of Demand," Mortgage Banking Magazine, October 1995.
George S. Masnick and Nancy McArdle, "The Changing Face of America's Homebuyers," Mortgage Banking Magazine, December 1995.