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Jiaxin Shi

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Demographer at HKUST; working on health & mortality, migration, and inequality https://sites.google.com/view/jiaxinshi

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 4d

📍Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar ⬇️

@jiaxinshi.bsky.social from HKUST will present 'Internal #migration and #longevity in the United States'

Register to join us online on 23 October: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

Image shows person presenting a seminar at the front of a classroom, with an audience with their back to the camera and a person in the foreground with their hand up to answer a question. Image credit: istock.com/Giuseppe Lombardo. Text advertises: This CPC-CG seminar will take place on Thursday 23 October 2025 at 12:00-13:00 UK Time. Jiaxin Shi, Associate Professor of Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will be delivering a presentation entitled, 'Internal Migration and Longevity in the United States'.

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Jiaxin Shi @jiaxinshi.bsky.social · Sep 4

The first paper from my postdoc is now live. I learnt a lot from my mentor/coauthor @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social in this and our other projects.

Full article: Trend breaks in life expectancy in the United States over 120 years and potential sources of future gains www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trend breaks in life expectancy in the United States over 120 years and potential sources of future gains

Research indicates a significant slowdown in life expectancy growth in the United States (US) post 2010, marking a departure from the consistent progress in longevity throughout the twentieth centu...

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