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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · 14h

For our next seminar at the Demography Department at Cedeplar, UFMG, we have the extraordinary Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social presenting. Don´t miss it! The Zoom link is below. We see you all tomorrow, October 8, at 2 pm Brazilian time 👇 💡
Zoom link: lnkd.in/e5UC-M54
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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · 13d

amazing to have Ayaga Bawah at the Cedeplar Seminar today! there is still time if you want to tune in:
us02web.zoom.us/j/5893735785
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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · 27d

Come and check out our next Formal Demography Working Group meeting with @phbocquier.bsky.social ! Sign up on our website to receive the link. If you have an ideia/paper/ work in progress you would like to present please feel free to reach out to us!
formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

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Cosmo Strozza @cosmostrozza.bsky.social · Sep 2

Health demographers 📣
Calling for submissions to our w. @timriffe1.bsky.social
Healthy Life Expectancy methodology collection on @genus.bsky.social! We're seeking innovative approaches to statistical modelling and empirical analysis of health inequalities 📈
📆 Submission deadline: 01/06/26
🔗 Link 👇

Healthy Life Expectancy: New Methods, New Insights

As countries worldwide experience population aging, understanding not just how long people live, but how many of those years are spent in good health, has ...

link.springer.com

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · 29d

Recalling that COVID still ranks in the top 10 causes of death in the US since 2023, while it ranked third in 2021-2022! So it had not only an important impact during the height of the pandemic, but it also remained a leading cause of death overall thereafter.

Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 29d

Persistent minimizing of the COVID death toll hits me especially hard in the #demography feels. To be clear:

➡️ Over one million Americans died of COVID-19.

➡️ Official COVID deaths were likely undercounted, not overcounted.

jenndowd.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

How many people died of COVID?

We likely undercounted, not overcounted COVID deaths

jenndowd.substack.com

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Ari B Friedman @abfriedman.com · 29d

It his me hard in the emergency doctor feels as well. I’d never seen so many healthy 30 something’s struggling to breathe since the pre-vaccine pandemic.

Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 29d

Persistent minimizing of the COVID death toll hits me especially hard in the #demography feels. To be clear:

➡️ Over one million Americans died of COVID-19.

➡️ Official COVID deaths were likely undercounted, not overcounted.

jenndowd.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

How many people died of COVID?

We likely undercounted, not overcounted COVID deaths

jenndowd.substack.com

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · 29d

Is low fertility a problem?

Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 29d

Exactly why is low fertility a problem? Demographer Oystein Kravdal does a deep dive into the reasoning and concludes that low birth rates aren’t inherently problematic.

Concerns about low fertility: Steps towards a clearer debate and perhaps less alarmism | Population Europe

population-europe.eu

Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · Jul 23

Beautiful paper by Emmanuel Idohou, together with Philippe Bocquier, and Michel Guillot on the role of parental origin in explaining the significant disparities that immigrant children in France face in terms of their survival. Super relevant (with sad results) work!

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · Jul 23

They find that disparities 📈in under-five mortality persist based on the mother’s origin.

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · May 20

Just posted the recording of @hggaddy.bsky.social's talk on Challenges in Estimating Crisis Mortality, you can check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCNI...

Formal demography working group meeting 11

YouTube video by Formal Demography

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Paola Di Giulio @pdigiulio.bsky.social · Jul 16

📊🔎Indirect estimations show that Roma and Travellers experience an extraordinary disadvantage in terms of #lifeexpectancy, according to data from 17 European countries by @fra.europa.eu

Forthcoming at tinyurl.com/VID-WP
Check also the other @demographyvienna.bsky.social WPs!

#IPC2025
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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · Jul 16

The University of Florence offers 4 positions within the PhD in Life Course Research!

🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing
🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility

Come join us in Florence! 👇👇

AISP @aisp-sis.bsky.social · Jul 16

📢 Applications open for the National PhD Program in Life Course Research!

👉 12 fully funded positions in Demography and Social Statistics, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to studying life courses.

🗓 Deadline: August 7
📍 More info: www.phd-lcr.com
📄 To apply: www.unifi.it/sites/defaul...

The PhD program in Life Course Research will train a new generation of highly skilled scholars relying on an evidence-based approach, with a strong emphasis on quantitative methods and data analysis.

www.phd-lcr.com

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · Jul 16

This #Debate from @vypr.bsky.social demonstrates how looking into national-level data can obscure important internal diversity for some population characteristics. This goes in hand with all recent debate in #demography that we should move beyond averages and include more heterogeneity.📈

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · Jul 16

congrats!

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · May 20

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · May 19

When people talk about other people not having "enough" children, remember that fertility rates have been roughly this low in much of Europe since the 1970s *and* some European countries had rates below 2 in the 1920s and 30s!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · May 16

Reach out if you would like to present your work and discuss with other folks that are into formal demography 🤓👇 you can just fill out this form: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

formaldemography.github.io/working_grou...

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · May 16

The Formal Demography Working Group is back and we have an open schedule! So, if you would like to present just feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]. It can be your work in progress or simply ideas you would like to share and discuss with other like-minded fellows!

Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · May 7

😀We are back! Check out @hggaddy.bsky.social talking about challenges in estimating crisis mortality at the formal dempgraphy working group meeting! Super excited to resume activities alongside @monjalexander.bsky.social ! Sign up at formaldemography.github.io/working_group/ 👇

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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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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · May 16

It´s happening and @hggaddy.bsky.social is discussing, among other issues, how temporal disaggregation for time series analysis of mortality is a solution for a need for spatial disaggregation - which creates death toll underestimation!

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · May 6

Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

Welcome

formaldemography.github.io

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · May 7

New Data & Trends paper out on the Vienna Yearbook @vypr.bsky.social ! Check out how to use Gini coefficient to examine inequalities in physical and cognitive functioning of older adults 👇
#demography
@demographyvienna.bsky.social

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · May 6

🚨 New Data&Trends out on @vypr.bsky.social ! @tarnhold.bsky.social, @viktoriaszenkuroek.bsky.social & @webervienna.bsky.social use Gini coefficients to examine inequalities in physical and cognitive functioning of older adults in 🔗 tinyurl.com/VYPR25-07

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@demographyvienna.bsky.social

The figure shows the relationship between the Gini estimates and medians of handgrip strength, immediate recall and verbal fluency for selected country’s population aged 60 to 74, in three panels.

Note: The x-axis represents the health equality, measured as 1−𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑖̂. The y-axis represents the estimated country median. The upper left of the tables shows the coefficients and their significance levels when regressing the median on 1−𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑖̂ (Confidence levels: * p<0.05; ** p<0.01; *** p<0.001). The solid line represents a regression line, with the grey area denoting the standard errors. Austria = AT, Belgium = BE, Brazil = BR, Bulgaria = BG, Chile = CL, China = CN, Croatia = HR, Cyprus = CY, Czechia = CZ, Denmark = DK, England = GB, Estonia = EE, Finland = FI, France = FR, Germany = DE, Ghana = GH, Greece = GR, Hungary = HU, India = IN, Indonesia = ID, Ireland = IE, Israel = IL, Italy = IT, Japan = JP, Latvia = LV, Lithuania = LT, Luxembourg = LU, Malta = MT, Mexico = MX, Netherlands = NL, Poland = PL, Portugal = PT, Romania = RO, Russia = RU, Slovakia = SK, Slovenia = SI, South Africa = ZA, Spain = ES, Sweden = SE, Switzerland = CH, USA = US.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 6

a little pick me up lol for the academics in the room

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · May 7

😀We are back! Check out @hggaddy.bsky.social talking about challenges in estimating crisis mortality at the formal dempgraphy working group meeting! Super excited to resume activities alongside @monjalexander.bsky.social ! Sign up at formaldemography.github.io/working_group/ 👇

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · May 3

met too. odd

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚨 New paper! In a study of 650,941 Swedish men, Peters & Barclay find that leadership skills measured during military service assignment (ages 17–20) are associated with a higher likelihood of marriage and more children by midlife

🔗 tinyurl.com/vypr-2505

#demography
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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025
Special Issue: Population inequality matters
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Guest editors: Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Iñaki Permanyer, Vanessa di Lego

The 2025 volume of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research highlights the role of population inequality in demographic research. Besides classical markers of heterogeneity in individual behavior, such as sex/gender, age, education, urban-rural residence and socio-economic status, other sources of inequality related to generational, environmental, and spatial factors are covered in the volume. Understanding population inequality is key for modeling population developments and projecting them into the future. Equally important is to understand how and why different types of inequality arise and evolve, and what policy challenges they impose for socio-economic development, welfare systems and social cohesion.

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