📖 New special issue: "Levels and Trends of Health Expectancy"! With introduction by Marc Luy, @pdigiulio.bsky.social, @vdilego.bsky.social, @lazarevic.bsky.social, @mmuszynskas.bsky.social and Markus Sauerberg.
🔗 Read now: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP... #demography

From Lifespan Inequality to Lifespan Inequity - Social Indicators Research This article introduces a comprehensive framework for defining and quantifying lifespan inequity within a population, grounded in the capability approach. Lifespan inequity (i.e., unfair inequality) i...

‪In this paper, we (with Yukiko Asada,
@alysonvanraalte.bsky.social and Isaac Sasson) we demonstrate how the normative assumptions can be made explicit in the measurement of lifespan inequality. shorturl.at/ncWGi

Muszyńska-Spielauer, Magdalena, & Riffe, Tim (2025). Life tables under current risk composition based on observed, fixed characteristics . Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025, 23 (1), 1–18. doi.org/10.1553/p-4p...

@demographyvienna.bsky.social

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

I have a 99.8% snapshot of all zipped files from CDC Vital Statistics Online as of today. Documentation pdfs too. The one missing file was cut off part way 🤷‍♂️ will try again from time to time. Anyone needs anything reach out

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For anyone using @overleaf.com , be aware that the AI features that are now turned on by default sends data to OpenAI (i.e. it sends your research without any anonymisation). While it says they don't use it to train their models, this is basically a trust issue. Go to: www.overleaf.com/user/settings

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library Research on mortality inequalities has proliferated in demography in recent decades, documenting disparities between nations and within them across multiple social dimensions. Yet, this literature re...

"This paper outlines three promising directions for extending the demographic research agenda on social inequalities in mortality."

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Congrats Tim! It’s a cool paper and the figures look great! 🤩

Are passionate about ethics and measurement? We (me and Prof. Julian Reiss) are looking for a PhD student for the project "Normative measurement framework for measuring lifespan inequity". More info about the project and the position here: www.jku.at/en/institute...

Demographic aging is not destiny

Demographically older nations often have a lower dependency ratio than demograpically younger nations -- as old age starts later due to a later onset of disease

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

thanks for sharing!