Dr. Jean-Marie Le Goff Jean-Marie Le Goff


Jean-Marie Le Goff earned a PhD in demography from the University of Paris-Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1995.  He then worked in the laboratory of demography at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) before spending the academic years 2001-2002 at the Max Plank Institute for demographic research in Rostock (Germany).  In 2002, he joined the pioneering team of researchers working on life course studies at the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva.  He is now Senior Researcher at the Life Course and Inequalities Research Center at the University of Lausanne.

Dr. Le Goff's main research interests focus on life course transitions, especially the transition from education to labour market and the transition to adulthood.  He currently works on the "Becoming a parent survey" in Switzerland and develops theoretical reseach on the probabilistic approach in social sciences, as well as methodological links between event history modelling and mathematical models on diffusion processes.  He is involved in the National Center of Competence in Research lives - Overcoming Vulnerability:  The Life Course Perspective.  In addition to teaching Event History/Survival Analysis for Western's Summer School in Longitudinal Data Analysis he also teaches an introductory course in demography, as well as graduate courses on life course methods and event history analysis at the Universities of Lausanne and Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne. 

Attached is a short description of the course on Event History/Survival Analysis.   

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