Our ongoing suite of @NIA_BSR funded work using CenSoc with Hamid Noghanibehambari estimating determinants of old age mortality at @HECJournalTweet--here we use roll out of colleges in the mid 20th C and find large effects ungated PDF: tinyurl.com/2mrswbb6 doi.org/10.1002/hec.47…

Posted today: “Birth Spacing & Parents’ Physical & Mental Health.” K Barclay, Martin Kolk & O Kravdal find that “very short & longer ave. birth intervals ↑ the probability of care-seeking for physical health problems." Stockholm University MPIDR Universitetet i Oslo ow.ly/INyF50QOZt6

🆕Publication by @philippdierker & Martin Diewald! The study shows that low-income families support their children equally, while parents with higher income tend to give more support to children with lower grades. What does that mean for social mobility? demogr.mpg.de/go/schoolgrades

A new IJE paper by Jenn Dowd Katarzyna Doniec Andrea Tilstra Luyin Zhang reveals that US working-age adults are dying at higher rates than their peers in high-income countries, with the UK also falling behind ➡️doi.org/10.1093/ije/dy… Oxford Population Health (OxPop) The Leverhulme Trust

Large age gaps are most common among man-man couples in the US. Partner differences related to education, income, and race/ethnicity are tied to age heterogamy for man-man couples more strongly than for other couple types. 📰demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

Øystein Kravdal and colleagues have found that a parental cancer death weakens young offspring’s mental health. In contrast, having a parent with cancer who remains alive throughout the observation period has quite little impact. 📰demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

🚨 Out in JAMA: 1.2 million US youth have lost parents to drugs/guns since 1999; in 2020 drugs/guns caused 23% of parental deaths. Black youth are WAY likelier to lose parents to guns & increasingly to drugs. W/ Benjamin-Samuel Schlüter Monica Alexander 🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Has new post-separation living arrangements transformed the meaning of divorce in high-income societies? Helen Eriksson and I explore in @SF_journal how the dissolution of a union makes gendered care work more equal than before the union dissolution. doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa…

Congrats Jiaxin Shi! Our former MPIDR colleague Jiaxin Shi received the Otto-Hahn-Medal on Wednesday. Each year, the Max Planck Society awards the Medal to young scientists for #outstanding scientific achievements. demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… Max Planck Society Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

Congratulations, Dr Hagley!

🆕 📰 Risto Conte Ugofilippo Basellini & Emilio Zagheni examine how 🌡️extreme🌡️ #temperatures in the 🇺🇸 affect #mortality among different racial groups. Cold ❄️& hot☀️days increase mortality rates, with the latter disproportionately affecting underrepresented #populations. demogr.mpg.de/go/hitbyheat

Yan Zhang & Jason Fletcher—in “The Association Between Parity & Odds of Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementias Status”—report negative correlations btw parity & odds of AD/D for mothers & fathers, especially for mothers. ECU UW-Madison CDE La Follette School of Public Affairs ow.ly/GmP550Txn1B

Thrilled to share that a chapter from my PhD has been published Faculté des SSP - UNIL (inactif) LIVES Centre

Applications now open for 3 x 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellows at at Univ. Salford, Manchester on large-scale UKRI-project “Living longer in poorer health? Understanding the migrant health paradox”. Apply by Jan 12. View job spec and apply here: universityofsalford.tal.net/vx/mobile-1/ap…

🗣️ We’re hiring! 🗣️ 3-year Research Fellow position available in the newly established Mortality and Inequalities Research Group, working closely with José Manuel Aburto. Deadline 15 April. DM us if interested. More positions coming soon, stay tuned! jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

My paper on causal decomposition of group disparities is out in the Annals of Applied Statistics! If you are looking to explain group differences, this is likely the methodological framework for you! doi.org/10.1214/24-AOA…

New article in Population and Development Review. We look at how intergenerational educational mobility shifted across the 20th century, drawing on data from 92 countries, predominantly LMICs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa…

📢 Call for Papers – Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Conference 6th December 2025. Abstract submissions are open until 19 September. I’m honoured to be giving a keynote at the conference and look forward to engaging with fellow scholars.

I think this piece does a particularly good job summarizing and explaining the findings from our new PNAS paper on longevity trends: studyfinds.org/life-expectanc… Link to the open-access original article: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

📍Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar #poptwitter ⬇️ Jiaxin Shi from HKUST will present 'Internal #migration and #longevity in the United States' Register to join us online on 23 October: cpc.ac.uk/activities/ful…