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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
“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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
Estimated life expectancy at age 25 in 2010-2017 declined overall among people without a 4-y college degree and increased among those w college-education. Much of thedifference was attributable to drug use https://t.co/c6rxX5QJ8J @jamaforum
— JAMA (@JAMA_current) August 29, 2019
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.
The case for monitoring life-span inequality is over-whelming: https://t.co/fRHw3KS1qK (DOI: 10.1126/science.aau5811) pic.twitter.com/mUSVRwS8ob
— Helsinki Institute Demography & Population Health (@PRUhelsinkiuni) January 18, 2019
Special thanks to the ECSR for supporting the workshop and to all the participants for presenting their research.