Joseph E. Potter (died May 13, 2024) was an American sociologist, demographer, and professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2011, he was also the leader of the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP), which has aimed to investigate the effect of restrictive abortion and family planning laws passed in Texas. Previously, he was the director of the Border Contraceptive Access Study. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.[1][2]
Work
editAs part of his work with TxPEP, Potter co-authored a 2016 study of the effects of Texas's funding cuts to Planned Parenthood on the number of births among Medicaid patients and the use of birth control in the state.[3][4] He has also researched the demand for long-acting reversible contraception (e.g. IUDs) and female sterilization among Texas women, and the difference between the percent of women who want to use such contraceptives and the percent who actually use them.[5]
Death
editReferences
edit- ^ "Joseph Potter". UT College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ^ "Joseph Potter". Demographic Research. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ^ "Study: Texas birth control fell after Planned Parenthood cut". CBS News. 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ^ Zernike, Kate (2017-03-14). "Cutting Planned Parenthood Would Increase Medicaid Births, C.B.O. Says". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ^ Flynn, Meagan (2017-07-17). "Despite Demand, Few Texas Women on Medicaid Are Able to Access IUDs". Houston Press. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ^ "It is with heavy hearts that we share the loss of our colleague and Professor Emeritus Joe Potter". University of Texas at Austin. May 14, 2024. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
- ^ Nota de Pesar – Professor Doutor Joseph E. Potter (in Portuguese)
External links
edit- Joseph E. Potter publications indexed by Google Scholar
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