I am hiring a 4-year Assistant Prof in Demography London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to work with me on topics related to formal/statistical demography and population dynamics in LMICs PSG LSHTM Feel free to get in touch to discuss more and please share it with anyone that might be interested. Details 👇

📣𝗝𝗢𝗕 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥! The Universität Rostock in cooperation with MPIDR is offering a 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀: demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122… #professor #Jobs #Science #Research #Demography

Suggested read: the comment "Prevention-centered health care in Germany – a nation in need to turn the tide" by Stephan Baldus & Prof. Karl Lauterbach in response to "The underwhelming German life expectancy" by Domantas Jasilionis Alyson van Raalte Sebastian Kluesener: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Sehr guter Überblick über Maßnahmen, die es braucht, um die Lebenserwartung in DE zu steigern. Übrigens mit direktem Bezug zur aktuellen Publikation von #BiB-Forschern Sebastian Kluesener u. Pavel Grigoriev, mit Domantas Jasilionis u. Alyson van Raalte MPIDR 🤓 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We are happy to welcome our new cohort of EDSD students! They will now spend 8 weeks MPIDR for the preparatory courses and move to Ined in November for the EDSD core program. We wish you an exciting year of coursework, research and networking! 👉 eaps.nl/edsd

We are organizing a workshop on 'Population Estimates and the 2020 Census Round: Challenges and Lessons Learned in Times of Pandemic' 21-24 November, Rio de Janeiro. Deadline for app: Oct 8 Asociación Latinoamericana de Población CPop SDU PSG LSHTM Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science More info -> tdy.lol/FyOsy

🇨🇦📢A new job posting in the Dept. de démographie -- please circulate in your networks IUSSP Association des Démographes du Québec Canadian Population Society Asociación Latinoamericana de Población FAS-UMontréal uMontreal News

We are happy to finally announce our #EuropeanDemographerAward winners! Daniele Vignoli, full professor at Università di Firenze Diego Alburez, research group leader at MPIDR Congratulations, dear colleagues! Thank you for your exceptional work! population-europe.eu/network/news-n…

I'm overjoyed to recieve this award: As an immigrant in Europe, it means a lot to me. Many many thx! 🙏🙏 I also want to use this platform to ask u to pls read about the ongoing coup in Guatemala 🇬🇹 If I'm honest it's all I can think about ATM. See this 👉 jacobin.com/2023/10/guatem…

New paper in with Martin Kolk. We find that as a function of pre-retirement earnings and lifespan, lifetime pensions tend to be more unequally distributed than both. Declining lifespan inequality is a major reason why lifetime pension inequality declined across cohorts.

I couldn't be happier with the MPIDR-ENCE collaboration! Thanks to DAAD News CAPES MPIDR and IBGE Comunica for making this possible.

My first PhD paper exploring the interactions between disability and morbidity in the US. The younger cohorts certainly spend more of their lifetime with morbidities but not more time with disabilities. These patterns suggest dynamic equilibrium theory. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmp…

In “The Dangers of Drawing Cohort Profiles From Period Data," Alyson van Raalte, Ugofilippo Basellini, CG Camarda, Marília Nepomuceno & M Myrskylä argue that "cohort summary measures…should always be calculated on the basis of age-cohort data.” MPIDR INEDEng ow.ly/KoBx50Q83S2

Check out our paper developing a novel method to decompose difference in multistate life expectancies into the differences in age-specific transition probabilities. This method expands the toolbox for multistate models. Generalizable code is available at github.com/tyaSHEN/HLEdec…

I am looking for a PhD student for my project on "Heterogeneity in Health and Mortality Studies of Population". The job is for 3 years at the JKU - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz more info here 👇 shorturl.at/tPRSW

We wrote something about kinship and the most common question I get is: what are 'niblings'?! Niblings are nieces/nephews, not something you snack on😂 Also, here is the paper; please cite it 👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

What’s the best way to analyze #lifeexpectancy stagnation in the US? 🤔 In @PNASnews, Jenn Dowd & I share our thoughts on a recent paper by Leah Abrams, Myrskylä & Mehta. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Nuffield College Oxford Population Health (OxPop) Sociology at Oxford MPIDR (1)

🎉💐🍾 Congrats Diego Alburez! Last night he received the #EuropeanDemographerAward in Berlin.Diego has been recognized as promising & upcoming researcher 2023.We're hoping to see & learn a lot more from him in the future! demogr.mpg.de/go/EDA-23 #BerlinDemographyDays Population Europe

📢open call for our special issue 2025📢 submit your proposal on topics related to #comparative #population studies ❗️Deadline: 15 June 2024❗️ More information: comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS… #openaccess, no fees, free language editing

📣Call for papers‼️ Angela Carollo Aapo Hiilamo & Mikko Myrskylä invite submissions for the workshop "Demystifying #machinelearning for population researchers" which aims to clarify goals, techniques, & applications of #ML methods for population research. demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events…