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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · 3d

They find that young women with severe hearing impairment are the population group that requires special attention due to the strong effect of depression on life expectancy.

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · 3d

#Rebep

In a recent paper, Moraes, Lopes and Alves quantify the impact of depression on the life expectancy of the Brazilian population with hearing impairment.

doi.org/10.20947/S01...

Estimating depression-free life expectancy in the hearing-impaired population in Brazil

Individuals with hearing impairments are more vulnerable to depression. According to the 2010 Brazilian Demographic Census, around 10 million people have some degree of hearing impairment. Brazil also...

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · 24d

New paper publish in Rebep by Leocádio, Verona and Wajnman investigate the association between gender equity in the family and fertility intentions in Brazil, at the micro level. The
results indicated that greater gender equity reduces impact decisions for a second child

doi.org/10.20947/S01...

Associação entre Equidade de Gênero na Família e Intenções de Fecundidade: Uma Análise do Contexto Brasileiro com Machine Learning

A literatura sobre equidade de gênero e fecundidade propõe uma curva em U para explicar a relação entre essas variáveis. À medida que as mulheres alcançam maior equidade na esfera pública (educação e ...

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

On a different note, in April 2025, I ran my first marathon – the São Paulo International. A couple of weeks ago, I took on a real cross-country race on forest trails. I went for the tough 11 km route, but it was a lot of fun!

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

D'Antona and colleagues assess the influence of population size and spatial distribution on the extent of forest cover and fragmentation across all 31 ERs in the Amazon Biome in Brazil.

rebep.org.br/revista/arti...

Vista do Spatial distribution of population and forest cover in extractive reserves in the Amazon biome, Brazil

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

They investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay from 2020 to 2022, focusing on disparities in mortality across departments and the contribution of different causes of death to changes in life expectancy.

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Torres and colleagues investigate mortality in Uruguay in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: geographic variations and causes of death

rebep.org.br/revista/arti...

Vista do A mortalidade no Uruguai no contexto da pandemia de COVID-19: variações regionais e causas de morte

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

In the coming days, I will be sharing posts about the papers published in the journal to date, with no particular or specific order

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

While many papers focus on Brazil, there are also several excellent studies examining other countries in Latin America.

You should also consider Rebep as one of the possible venues for publishing your research.

www.rebep.org.br

Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

We invite you to visit the journal’s website and explore the papers published so far in 2025. The journal has featured research on topics such as mortality, migration, fertility, historical demography, marriage and family, gender, health, the labor market, and the demography of education.

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

We strive to maintain a fast and rigorous review process. On average, desk rejection takes about 8 days, and the time from submission to publication is approximately 120 days.

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

The journal is fully open-access, with no Article Processing Charges (APC), and is freely accessible to all readers. Rebep follows a double-blind peer review process, while offering authors and reviewers the option to publish their reviews. Rebep encourages the dissemination of replication materials

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

@jacalazans.bsky.social, Carol Tomás and I are the editors of Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Populacao (www.rebep.org.br), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes population related papers in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Rebep has just turned 40 years old in 2024.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População

REBEP - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População

www.rebep.org.br

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very interesting paper on US life expectancy trends.

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...

www.tandfonline.com

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Interesting and important discussion about low fertility by O. Kravdal.

www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Demographic Research - Should we be concerned about low fertility? A discussion of six possible arguments (Volume 53 - Article 14 | Pages 373–418)

Volume 53 - Article 14 | Pages 373–418

www.demographic-research.org

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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · Aug 9

UC stands up for us. Let's stand up for UC.

Jennie Brand @jenniebrand.bsky.social · Aug 9

#StandUpForUC to defend UCLA from the federal government's $1B demand and support critical research ucal.us/standupforuc

Stand Up for UC

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Jul 1

We find that there was a decrease in the relative wages for males at the top of the wage distribution. But there was an increase in wages for those in the bottom and middle of the wage distribution.

Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Jul 1

In the paper, we investigate income differentials in the labor market among young Brazilian adults across their birth cohorts. It investigates whether the same process of wage decline for young adults is observed in more recent cohorts and what is the role of education on this change.

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · Jul 1

New paper on Wage differentials in Brazil with @mathmenezes0.bsky.social - the paper is a derived from his Ph.D dissertation research. The paper studies changes in wages across cohorts.

www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

Wage differentials between young adults’ cohorts in Brazil | Emerald Insight

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Eugenio Paglino @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social · Jun 17

New (core demography) paper on US metropolitan and nonmetropolitan mortality out in the Journal of Rural Health. Stay tuned for a thread 🧵summarising the key findings!
#Demography

Journal of Rural Health @jruralhealth.bsky.social · Jun 17

Evolution of the US nonmetropolitan mortality disadvantage by sex, state, and year, 1999-2019 from @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social et al. #RuralHealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Evolution of the US nonmetropolitan mortality disadvantage by sex, state, and year, 1999‐2019

Purpose To examine disparities in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan mortality by state and sex from 1999 to 2019. Methods We calculate age-standardized mortality rates for nonmetropolitan and metro...

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Eugenio Paglino @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 New article out in Social Science & Medicine!
Irma Elo and I take a deeper look at trends in life expectancy for foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

US-Born and Foreign-born Life Expectancy by Race and Hispanic Origin before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Interdisciplinary health scholarship has long documented the lower mortality of the foreign-born compared to the US-born populations. In this study, w…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · May 7

Perfil desejado: domínio no processo de aquisição, armazenamento, estruturação, análise e comunicação de dados, além de desenvolver, aplicar e interpretar métodos de análise de informações populacionais utilizando técnicas de IA, machine learning e estatística aplicada avançada.

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · May 7

Concurso para Professor Assitente
Departamento de Demografia
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Área de conhecimento
Métodos Computacionais e Estatísticos Aplicados

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · May 7

The department is looking for someone with teaching and research interests in the processes of data acquisition, storage, structuring, analysis, and communication. Capable of developing, applying, and interpreting methods for analyzing population data using AI, machine learning, and statistics.

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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · May 7

Search for Assistant Professor
Department of Demography - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

- Métodos Computacionais e Estatísticos Aplicados (Applied Computational and Statistical Methods)

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