Ethan Sharygin
Assistant Professor & Population Research Center Director
Portland State University
CSDE Research Areas:
- Demographic Measurements and Methods
- Environments and Populations
- Migration and Settlement
In the News:
- Equity and Measurement Considerations in Migration After California Wildfires – Dr. Sameer Shah, Dr. Ethan Sharygin, Dr. Mary Angelica Painter (01/31/2025)
- Flaxman and Sharygin Publish On Reconstructing Age Distributions From Census Data with Differential Privacy Controls (10/28/2022)
- CSDE Welcomes Four New External Affiliates! (10/22/2021)
Ethan Sharygin is a demographer and director of the Population Research Center at Portland State University. Sharygin's recent work concerns demographic consequences of wildfire, in particular on how first responders can more accurately estimate population in fire zones and how applied demographers can estimate migration in and around disaster areas using innovative small area estimates methods. Sharygin recently collaborated with researchers at the CA Energy Commission on projected population at heightened risk of wildfires due to climate change. He also worked with RAND Corporation and the CA Census on a household survey to collect data on housing, population, and neighborhood quality for program evaluation and to facilitate the incorporation of remote sensing data into demographic estimates methodology after the 2020 census. Additionally, Sharygin contributed to the development of the Community Burden of Disease project, an initiative of the CA Department of Public Health.