Joseph E. Potter (1946 – 2024) was an American sociologist, demographer, and professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.
[2] He then earned an MPA in 1973 at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
[3] Potter received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1975, mentored by Dr. Ansley Coale.
[4][5][6] As 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.
[7][8] 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.