Prof. dr. ir. F.J. (Frans) Willekens

Honorary Fellow

Affiliations

Emeritus professor of Demography at the Population Research Centre, University of Groningen
Resting member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Educational background

Economics / Agricultural engineering

Expertise

Multistate demography, population forecasting, statistical demography, analysis of life history data, reconstruction of life histories from incomplete data

Phone

++ 31 (0)70 3565227

E-mail

willekens @ nidi.nl

Publications (selection)

Peeters, A, J.J. Barendregt, F. Willekens, J.P. Mackenbach, A. Al Mamun & L. Bonneux (2003),

Obesity in adulthood and its consequences for life expectancy: a life-table analysis. Annals of Internal Medicine 138 (1): 24-32. [pdf]

Rogers, A., F. Willekens & J. Raymer (2003),

Imposing age and spatial structures on inadequate migration-flow datasets. Professional Geographer 55 (1): 56-69. [pdf]

Willekens, F. (2003),

Multistate demography. In: P. Demeny & G. McNicoll (eds.), Encyclopedia of population. New York etc.: McMillan Reference USA, p. 681-684.

Padmadas, S., I. Hutter & F. Willekens (2002),

Weaning initiation patterns and subsequent linear growth progression among children aged 2-4 years in India. International Journal of Epidemiology 31 (4): 855-863. [pdf]

Peeters, A, A.A. Mamun, F. Willekens & L. Bonneux (2002),

A cardiovascular life history, European Heart Journal, 23 (6): 458-466. [pdf]

Tabeau, E., F. Willekens & F. van Poppel (2002),

Parameterisation as a tool in analysing age, period and cohort effects on mortality: a case study of the Netherlands. In: G.Wunsch, M. Mouchart & J. Duchene (eds.), The life table: modelling survival and death. Dordrecht etc.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 141-169.

Willekens, F. (2001),

Theoretical and technical orientation toward longitudinal research in the social sciences, Canadian Studies in Population, 28 (2): 189-218.

Willekens, F. (1999),

Modeling approaches to the indirect estimation of migration flows: from entropy to EM, Mathematical Population Studies, 7 (3): 239-278.

Willekens, F. (1999),

The life course: models and analysis. In: L.J.G. van Wissen & P.A. Dykstra (eds.), Population issues: an interdisciplinary focus, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, p. 23-51.