Joshua Wilde is a Research Scientist with the Population Research Center. He is the co-creator of the Canning-Karra-Wilde (CKW) research model, one of the leading tools used to calculate the Demographic Dividend. His published works have appeared in leading journals in the fields of economics and demography, including the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, Demography, and the Population and Development Review. He is currently one of two Editors of the Population and Development Review. Dr. Wilde also co-chairs the IUSSP Panel on Covid-19, Fertility, and the Family. He is jointly a Senior Researcher in the Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford in the field of Demography, Demographic Economics, and Development Economics, with an emphasis on the causes and economic effects of fertility change, as well as a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute for Labor Economics. Prior to this, Wilde was the Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and an assistant professor of Economics at the University of South Florida. Dr. Wilde regularly consults for leading international organizations, such as the World Bank and the United Nations.