For more than 30 years he was director of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago where he also served as the Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology.

[2] Hauser worked at the United States Census Bureau from 1938 to 1947, first as Assistant Chief Statistician for Population then taking on the role of Deputy Director in 1946.

[6] Hauser was the founder of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago, over which he served as director for some 30 years.

[2] During the course of his career there he helped train approximately 100 future PhDs, in addition to a large number of other graduate students.

Guide to the Philip M. Hauser Papers 1925-1977 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center