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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.

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., & 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.

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.

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.

van Raalte, A. A., Sasson, I., & Martikainen, P. (2018). The case for monitoring life-span inequality. Science, 362(6418), 1002–1004.

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.

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.

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Cantu, P. A., Sheehan, C. M., Sasson, I., & Hayward, M. D. (2021). Increasing Education-Based Disparities in Healthy Life Expectancy Among US Non-Hispanic Whites, 2000–2010. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(2): 319–329.

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Sasson, I., & Harpaz, Y. (2023). Demography as Destiny? Shifting Power Relations among Sectors in Israeli Society. Israeli Sociology, 24(2), 160–177.

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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., & Weinreb, A. (2024). Israel as a demographic anomaly: Between Europe and the Middle East. Strategic Assessment: A Multidisciplinary Journal on National Security, 27(2): 70–84.

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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.

Sasson, I. (2025). Social inequalities as sources of extrinsic mortality: Implications of the two-tiered model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 48: e119.

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).

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).

Tal, A., 2017, “Will Demography Defeat River Restoration? The Case of the Jordan River,” The Journal of Water Research. 111, 404-419.

Carmi, N., Tal, A. 2018, The Perceived Relationship of Population Growth to Current Ecological Problems Using Repertory Grid Technique, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment,

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. 

Kramer, I., Tsairi, Y., Roth, M., Tal, A., Mau, Y. 2022,  Population Growth to Greatly Increase Israel’s Reliance on Desalinated, npj Clean Water, Nature Portfolio 5, 67, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-022-00215-9.

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.

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.

Tal, A. 2025, The Environmental Impacts of Overpopulation, Encyclopedia 5, 45

Carmi, N., Tal, A. 2018, The Perceived Relationship of Population Growth to Current Ecological Problems Using Repertory Grid Technique, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment,

Tal, A., 2017, “Will Demography Defeat River Restoration? The Case of the Jordan River,” The Journal of Water Research. 111, 404-419.