Jan M. Hoem is Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. Prior to becoming Director at the Max Planck Institute he was Professor of Demometry at Stockholm University and Professor of Insurance Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen. He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Demometry. Family dynamics (childbearing; the formation and dissolution of marital and non-marital unions), particularly in Scandinavia and in Eastern Europe.

• Educational attainment and childlessness/ultimate fertility: The relationship between educational field, educational level, and fertility among Swedish women born in 1955-59 (by Jan M. Hoem, Gerda Neyer, and Gunnar Andersson). Demographic Research 14, 331-404, 2006.
• Anticipatory analysis and its alternatives in life-course research. Part 1: Education and first childbearing. Part 2: Marriage and first birth (by Jan M. Hoem and Michaela Kreyenfeld). Demographic Research 15, 464-498, 2006.
• The Total Marital Fertility Rate and its extensions (by JMH and Cornelia Mureşan). European Journal of Population 27, 295-312, 2011.

• Recent fertility patterns of Finnish women by union status (by JMH, Marika Jalovaara, and Cornelia Mureşan). Demographic Research 28 (14), 409-420, 2013.
• Recent features of cohabitational and marital fertility in Romania [New title] (by JMH, Cornelia Mureşan, and Mihaela Hărăguş). Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2012:11. Resubmitted.
• The dangers of conditioning on the time of occurrence of one process in the analysis of another [New title]. Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2012:12. Resubmitted.