Nicholas Eberstadt

Eberstadt was born on December 20, 1955, in New York City. His father, Frederick Eberstadt, was an author and photographer. He completed his M.P.A. at Harvard Kennedy School in 1979, and his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University in 1995. ==Career==

Eberstadt was a teaching fellow at Harvard University from 1976 to 1979, instructing courses in population and natural resources, agricultural economics, social science and social policy, and problems of policy making in less developed countries. He was a visiting research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation from 1979 to 1980, meanwhile serving as an associate of Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 1980 to 2002, Eberstadt was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Eberstadt joined his current institution, the American Enterprise Institute, as a visiting fellow in 1985. He assumed the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy and became a resident fellow in 1999. He has consulted for governmental and international organizations, the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. State Department, USAID, and World Bank, and has often been invited to offer expert testimony before Congress. Eberstadt served on the President's Commission on Bioethics (2006–2009) and the Presidential HELP Commission (2005–2008). ==Personal life==

Eberstadt married Mary Tedeschi, now a scholar at the Hoover Institution, in 1987. His daughters, Izzi and Kate, graduates of Barnard College and Columbia University, respectively, founded the music duo Delune. ==Selected works==

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Eberstadt, Nicholas (2017). Our Miserable 21st Century. Commentary. 15 February 2017. • Eberstadt, Nicholas (2021). Can America Cope with Demographic Decline?. Commentary. 18 October 2021. ==See also==