Measuring Jewish identity in population surveys is challenging. In most countries Jews are a small minority group, which requires wide canvassing efforts to collect sufficiently large representative samples. Moreover, Jewish identity reflects a mixture of religion, ancestry, and culture, which…

Abstract: Against the backdrop of the attempted judicial overhaul, tensions between different sectors in Israeli society are intensifying. In this paper, we revisit the seminal work of Baruch Kimmerling, who announced the end of secular Zionist hegemony and the emergence…

Read our paper in Early Child Development and Care.

A new decomposition method of inequality in length of life to reconcile group- and individual-based approaches to health inequality. Rather than focus on group differences in life expectancy, it allows us to answer, for example, what is the probability that…

Looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join an ISF-funded research project on mortality inequalities in the United States and in Israel. The position is offered for two years, to begin no later than October 2023. See call for applications for…

Do Americans who expect to live longer actually live longer? The answer varies by race and gender. For example, white men on average underestimate their longevity whereas black men overestimate it. Why? Read the full paper here. Figure: Subjective vs.…

The five-year grant (with Itai Sened, Vered Blass, Asher Tishler, and Hadas Mamane Steindel) will kickstart the Applied Systems Analysis Excellence Center at Tel Aviv University. As head of the center’s demography branch, I encourage doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who…

The study will examine inequalities in length of life, over time, by class, gender, and race/ethnicity in Israel and the United States. It will draw on diverse data sources, ranging from census and population registry data (Israel) to vital statistics…

Abstract: Israel, like other high-income countries, exhibits substantial and rising class disparities in health and mortality. Individuals with high levels of education and income benefit on average from better physical and cognitive health, as well as lower mortality rates. Yet…

Glad to have taken part in this important project, involving more than 80 researchers worldwide and led by Tim Riffe and Enrique Acosta from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Special thanks to Erez Shomron, a former student and…

The Herczeg Institute on Aging at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (University of Southern Denmark) and the Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science (Oxford University), is pleased to announce its upcoming webinar on New…

COVID-19 is often portrayed as a “disease of the elderly,” but is this portrayal supported by the evidence? How does the risk of dying from COVID-19 vary by age? How does it compare with other causes of death? And how…

“Regional trajectories in life expectancy and lifespan variation: Persistent inequality in two Nordic welfare states” published in PSP (with SUDA researchers Ben Wilson, Sven Drefahl, Paul Henery, and Caroline Uggla). Key finding: In both Finland and Sweden, life expectancy increased…

Recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join my Demography Lab, currently focusing on social inequalities in health and mortality. The position is for 1 to 2 years and will start on October 2020. For additional information see the call for applications.

My first foray into historical sociology published in Middle Eastern Studies (with Ronen Shamir). Our study traces the politics of census-making in British-ruled Palestine surrounding the question of Arab landlessness. Based on archival work, we demonstrate how Jewish statistical expertise and…

I am pleased to announce the 2nd Tel Aviv Workshop on Inequalities in Health, Longevity, and Aging. The workshop is organized in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics at the University of Southern Denmark and the Herczeg Institute…

I will be spending the fall semester at the EUI’s Department of Political and Social Sciences and Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (CLIC) as Visiting Fellow. Special thanks to Fabrizio Bernardi and Juho Härkönen for inviting me and…

Long-term mortality forecasts are critical for government planning and welfare provision, because life expectancy has direct implications for health expenditure and old-age state pensions, among other factors. Yet, forecasting Israeli life expectancy has proven especially challenging for several reasons. First,…

The case for monitoring life-span inequality is over-whelming: https://t.co/fRHw3KS1qK (DOI: 10.1126/science.aau5811) pic.twitter.com/mUSVRwS8ob — PRU HelsinkiUni (@PRUhelsinkiuni) January 18, 2019

Special thanks to the ECSR for supporting the workshop and to all the participants for presenting their research.

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