Zheng, Y., van Raalte, A., & Sasson, I. (2026).

Slowdowns in mortality improvements and trends in lifespan inequality across high-income countries: The role of changing causes of death, 2010–2021

European Journal of Public Health (forthcoming)

Shay, D., Shavit, Y., & Sasson, I. (2025)

Beyond the Cradle: Effects of Family Income in the First 1,000 Days on Educational Achievement Later in Life

European Sociological Review (forthcoming)

Tal, A. (2025)

The EnvironmentalImpacts of Overpopulation

Encyclopedia 5, 45

Sasson, I. (2025).

Social inequalities as sources of extrinsic mortality: Implications of the two-tiered model

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 48: e119

Zheng, Y., Tyrovolas, S., Yip, P. S. F., & Sasson, I. (2025)

Changes in life expectancy across selected countries in the Western Pacific Region and their underlying risk factors, 1990-2021

BMC Public Health, 25: 3933

Muszynska-Spielauer, Magdalena, van Raalte, A., Sasson, I., & Asada, Y. (2025)

From Lifespan Inequality to Lifespan Inequity

Social Indicators Research, 180(3): 1449–1473

Sasson, I. (2025)

Population and Development Review, 51 (1): 323–360

Sasson, I., & Weinreb, A. (2024)

Journal on National Security, 27(2): 70–84

Shay, D., Shavit, Y., & Sasson, I. (2024)

Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements

Early Child Development and Care, 5–6: 655–668  

Sasson, I. (2023)

Lessons for Measuring Jewish Identity from Racial Categorization in Population Censuses: Commentary on According to Their Numbers

Contemporary Jewry, 43: 225–228  

Sasson, I., & Harpaz, Y. (2023)

Demography as Destiny? Shifting Power Relations among Sectors in Israeli Society

Israeli Sociology, 24(2), 160–177

Tal, A., Tsairi, Y. (2023)

The Effects of Population Density on Public Health in Israel: Present; Desirable and Anticipated

Israel Journal of Sociology, 24 (1) 199-225

Permanyer, I., Sasson, I., & Villavicencio, F. (2023)

Group- and individual-based approaches to health inequality: Towards an integration

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 186(2), 217–240

Kramer, I., Tsairi, Y., Roth, M., Tal, A., Mau, Y. (2022)

npj Clean Water, Nature Portfolio5, 67

Sasson, I., & Regev, A. (2022)

Class-Based Inequalities in Health and Mortality in Israel: A Theoretical and Empirical Review

Israeli Sociology, 23(1), 109–132

Sasson, I. (2021)

Age and COVID-19 mortality: A comparison of Gompertz doubling time across countries and causes of death

Demographic Research, 44, 379–396

Peri, E., Tal, A. (2021)

Is setback distance the best criteria for siting wind turbines under crowded conditions? An empirical analysis

Energy Policy, 155, 112346

Cantu, P. A., Sheehan, C. M., Sasson, I., & Hayward, M. D. (2021)

ncreasing Education-Based Disparities in Healthy Life Expectancy Among US Non-Hispanic Whites, 2000–2010

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(2): 319–329

Wilson, B., Drefahl, S., Sasson, I., Henery, P. M., & Uggla, C. (2020)

Regional trajectories in life expectancy and life-span variation: Persistent inequality in two Nordic welfare states

Population, Space and Place, 26(8), e2378

Tsairi, Y. Tal, A. (2020)

The Contribution of Urban Population Density to Corona Incidence in Israel

Ecology and Environment 20 (1).

Gould, R., Tal, A. (2020)

Returning Population to the Sustainable Development Discourse: Israel as a Case Study

Acta Universitatis Carolinae, 20 (1) 11-43

Sasson, I., & Shamir, R. (2020)

The 1931 census of Palestine and the statistical (un)making of an Arab landless class

Middle Eastern Studies, 56(2), 239–256

Sasson, I., & Hayward, M. D. (2019)

Association between educational attainment and causes of death among white and black US adults, 2010-2017

JAMA, 322(8), 756–763

van Raalte, A. A., Sasson, I., & Martikainen, P. (2018)

The case for monitoring life-span inequality

Science, 362(6418), 1002–1004

Carmi, N., Tal, A. (2018)

The Perceived Relationship of Population Growth to Current Ecological Problems Using Repertory Grid Technique

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Sheehan, C., Montez, J. K., & Sasson, I. (2018)

Does the functional form of the association between education and mortality differ by US region?

Biodemography and Social Biology, 64(1), 63–81

Crimmins, E., Saito, Y., Kim, J. K., Zhang, Y., Sasson, I., & Hayward, M. D. (2018)

Educational differences in the prevalence of dementia and life expectancy with dementia in the United States: Changes from 2000 to 2010

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73(S1), 20–28

Sasson, I., & Weinreb, A. (2017)

Land cover change and fertility in West-Central Africa: Rural livelihoods and the vicious circle model

Population and Environment, 38(4), 345–368

Tal, A. (2017)

Will Demography Defeat River Restoration? The Case of the Jordan River

The Journal of Water Research. 111, 404-419.

Cetorelli, V, Sasson, I., Shabila, N., & Burnham, G. (2017)

Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq in August 2014: A retrospective household survey

PLOS Medicine, 14(5), e1002297

Sasson, I. (2016)

Diverging trends in cause-specific mortality and life years lost by educational attainment: Evidence from United States vital statistics data, 1990–2010

PLOS ONE, 11(10), e0163412.  

Sasson, I. (2016)

Trends in life expectancy and lifespan variation by educational attainment: United States, 1990–2010

Demography, 53(2), 269–293

Hayward, M. D., Hummer, R. A., & Sasson, I. (2015)

Trends and group differences in the association between educational attainment and US adult mortality: Implications for understanding education's causal influence

Social Science & Medicine, 127, 8–18

Sasson, I., & Umberson, D. J. (2014)

Widowhood and depression: New light on gender differences, selection, and psychological adjustment

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 69(1), 135–145

Sasson, I., & Sakamoto, A. (2014)

Non-poor components of population growth and immigration in the US, 1990–2010

Social Indicators Research, 115(1), 183–201