Overview
Demographer at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, at the time of publication. Works broadly on mortality, fertility, and historical demography. Developed the Gompertz residual method for identifying the timing of the young adult mortality hump, which he applies as an indirect proxy for male sexual maturity timing across historical populations.
Key Contributions / Features
- Secular trend in male sexual maturity (Goldstein 2011): Author of the first systematic multi-country historical analysis using the accident hump peak age as a proxy for male pubertal timing. Used HMD data for Sweden (1751+), Denmark, Norway, England/Wales, and Italy; found a ~0.19 y/decade secular decline in hump-peak age from the mid-18th to mid-20th century, with a halt since ~1950. Parallels and complements the secular decline in female menarche, with a slower rate consistent with life-history theory. See Young Adult Mortality Hump and Sexual Maturity Secular Trend.
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