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Publications<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n
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Articles in peer-reviewed journals<\/h4>\n

Permanyer, I\u00f1aki, and Isaac Sasson. (2026). Multivariate decomposition of lifespan inequality<\/a>. Genus<\/span> (forthcoming).\n <\/p>\n

Zheng, Yan, Alyson van Raalte, and Isaac Sasson. (2026). Slowdown in mortality improvements and trends in lifespan inequality across high-income countries: the role of changing causes of death, 2010\u20132021.<\/a>European Journal of Public Health<\/span>, 36(2): ckag002.\n <\/p>\n

Shay, Dana, Yossi Shavit, and Isaac Sasson. (2026). Beyond the Cradle: Effects of Family Income in the First 1,000 Days on Educational Achievement Later in Life.<\/a>European Sociological Review<\/span>, 42(2): 218\u2013236.\n <\/p>\n

Zheng, Yan, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Paul S. F. Yip, and Isaac Sasson. (2025). Changes in life expectancy across selected countries in the Western Pacific Region and their underlying risk factors, 1990-2021.<\/a>\n <\/a>BMC Public Health<\/span>, 25: 3933.\n <\/p>\n

Muszynska-Spielauer, Magdalena, Alyson van Raalte, Isaac Sasson, and Yukiko Asada. (2025). From Lifespan Inequality to Lifespan Inequity.<\/a>Social Indicators Research<\/span>, 180(3): 1449\u201373.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac. (2025). A new research agenda for social inequalities in mortality: Challenges and open questions.<\/a>Population and Development Review<\/span>, 51(1): 323\u2013360.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac, and Alexander Weinreb. (2024). Israel as a demographic anomaly: Between Europe and the Middle East.<\/a>Strategic Assessment: A Multidisciplinary Journal on National Security<\/span>, 27(2): 70\u201384.\n <\/p>\n

Shay, Dana, Yossi Shavit, and Isaac Sasson. (2024). Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements.<\/a>Early Child Development and Care<\/span>, 194(5\u20136): 655\u2013668.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac, and Yossi Harpaz. (2023). Demography as Destiny? Shifting Power Relations among Sectors in Israeli Society.<\/a>Israeli Sociology<\/span>, 24(2): 160\u2013177. [Hebrew]\n <\/p>\n

Bernstein, Shayna, and Isaac Sasson. (2023). Black and white differences in subjective survival expectations: An evaluation of competing mechanisms.<\/a>SSM \u2013 Population Health<\/span>, 21: 101339.\n <\/p>\n

Permanyer, I\u00f1aki, Isaac Sasson, and Francisco Villavicencio. (2023). Group- and individual-based approaches to health inequality: Towards an integration.<\/a>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A<\/span>, 186(2): 217\u2013240.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac, and Atalia Regev. (2022). Class-Based Inequalities in Health and Mortality in Israel: A Theoretical and Empirical Review.<\/a>Israeli Sociology<\/span>, 23(1): 109\u2013132. [Hebrew]\n <\/p>\n

Riffe, Tim, Enrique Acosta, Isaac Sasson, and the COVerAGE-DB team. (2021). Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths.<\/a>International Journal of Epidemiology<\/span>, 50(2): 390\u2013390f.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac. (2021). Age and COVID-19 mortality: A comparison of Gompertz doubling time across countries and causes of death.<\/a>Demographic Research<\/span>, 44: 379\u2013396.\n <\/p>\n

Cantu, Phillip, Connor M. Sheehan, Isaac Sasson, and Mark D. Hayward. (2021). Increasing Education-Based Disparities in Healthy Life Expectancy Among US Non-Hispanic Whites, 2000\u20132010.<\/a>The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences<\/span>, 76(2): 319\u2013329.\n <\/p>\n

Wilson, Ben, Sven Drefahl, Isaac Sasson, Paul M. Henery, and Caroline Uggla. (2020). Regional trajectories in life expectancy and life-span variation: Persistent inequality in two Nordic welfare states.<\/a>Population, Space and Place<\/span>, 26(8): e2378.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac, and Ronen Shamir. (2020). The 1931 Census of Palestine and the Statistical (Un)making of an Arab Landless Class.<\/a>Middle Eastern Studies<\/span>, 56(2): 239\u2013256.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac, and Mark D. Hayward. (2019).<\/a>\n  Association Between Educational Attainment and Causes of Death Among White and Black US Adults, 2010\u20132017.<\/a>JAMA<\/span>, 322(8): 756\u2013763.\n <\/p>\n

van Raalte, Alyson, Isaac Sasson, and Pekka Martikainen. (2018). The Case for Monitoring Life-span Inequality.<\/a>Science<\/span>, <\/span>362(6418): 1002\u20134.\n <\/p>\n

Sheehan, Connor, Jennifer Karas Montez, and Isaac Sasson. (2018). Does the Functional form of the Association between Education and Mortality Differ by U.S. Region?<\/a>Biodemography and Social Biology<\/span>, 64(1): 63\u201381.\n <\/p>\n

Crimmins, Eileen, Yasuhiko Saito, Jung Ki Kim, Yuan Zhang, Isaac Sasson, and Mark Hayward. (2018). Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Dementia and Life Expectancy with Dementia in the United States: Changes from 2000 to 2010.<\/a>The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences<\/span>, 73: S20\u2013S28.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac, and Alexander Weinreb. (2017). <\/a>\n Land Cover Change and Fertility in West-Central Africa: Rural Livelihoods and the Vicious Circle Model.<\/a>Population and Environment<\/span>, 38(4): 345\u201368.\n <\/p>\n

Cetorelli, Valeria, Isaac Sasson, Nazar Shabila, and Gilbert Burnham. (2017). Mortality and Kidnapping Estimates for the Yazidi Population in the Area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A Retrospective Household Survey.<\/a>PLOS Medicine<\/span>, <\/span>14(5): e1002297.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac. (2016). Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment: United States, 1990-2010.<\/a>Demography<\/span>, <\/span>53(2): 269\u201393.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac. (2016). Diverging Trends in Cause-Specific Mortality and Life Years Lost by Educational Attainment: Evidence from United States Vital Statistics Data, 1990-2010.<\/a>PLOS ONE<\/span>, 11(10): e0163412.\n <\/p>\n

Hayward, Mark D., Robert A. Hummer, and Isaac Sasson. (2015). Trends and Group Differences in the Association between Educational Attainment and U.S. Adult Mortality: Implications for Understanding Education\u2019s Causal Influence.<\/a>Social Science & Medicine<\/span>, 127: 8\u201318.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac, and Debra J. Umberson. (2014). Widowhood and Depression: New Light on Gender Differences, Selection, and Psychological Adjustment.<\/a>The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences<\/span>, <\/span>69(1): 135\u201345.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac, and Arthur Sakamoto. (2014). <\/a>\n Non-poor Components of Population Growth and Immigration in the U.S., 1990-2010.<\/a>Social Indicators Research<\/span>, 115(1): 183\u2013201.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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Commentaries and other publications<\/h4>\n

Sasson, Isaac. (2025). Social inequalities as sources of extrinsic mortality: Implications of the two-tiered model.<\/a>Behavioral and Brain Sciences<\/span>, 48: e119.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac. (2023). Lessons for Measuring Jewish Identity from Racial Categorization in Population Censuses: Commentary on According to Their Numbers.<\/a>Contemporary Jewry<\/span>, 43: 225\u2013228.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac. (2017). Reply to Trends in Education-Specific Life Expectancy, Data Quality, and Shifting Education Distributions: A Note on Recent Research.<\/a>Demography<\/span>, <\/span>54(3): 1215\u201319.\n <\/p>\n

Cetorelli, Valeria, Isaac Sasson, Nazar Shabila, and Gilbert Burnham. (2017). ISIS\u2019 Yazidi Genocide.<\/a>Foreign Affairs<\/span> (June 8).\n <\/p>\n

Montez , Jennifer Karas, Isaac Sasson, and Mark D. Hayward. (2016). Declining U.S. Life Expectancy, 1990-2010.<\/a> Health Affairs<\/span>, 35(3): 550.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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Research reports<\/h4>\n

Vaknin, Dana, Yossi Shavit, and Isaac Sasson. (2019). Emerging Early Childhood Inequality: Poverty and Future Academic Achievement.<\/a>State of the nation report: Society, economy and policy in Israel<\/span>, 313-359. Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel.\n <\/p>\n

Sasson, Isaac. (2019). Long-Term Mortality Forecast for Israel: Evaluating Current Methods and Alternatives.<\/a> Research report for the National Insurance Institute of Israel. [Hebrew]\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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Working papers<\/h4>\n

Sasson, Isaac, Linus Andersson, Alyson van Raalte, and Diego Alburez-Gutierrez. (2024). Social Inequalities in Bereavement across the Life Course: A Study of Four-Generation Kinship Networks in Sweden.<\/a>Stockholm Research Reports in Demography<\/span>, No. 2024:30.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n \n \n \n \n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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