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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · 14d

Finally, Robert Zniva and I worked together on our common interest #aging we united the disciplines #marketing #public_health and #demography in our paper on measuring aging! 👉👉👉https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2025.2559922

Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · 14d

I would have ranked a few countries differently I have to state. Very nice.

Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · 14d

Very interesting special issue to come!

REVES-Network on Health Expectancy @reves-network.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Papers from #REVES2026 with a focus on new methods for analyzing healthy life expectancy and inequalities will be great candidates for the @genus.bsky.social Healthy Life Expectancy collection by @cosmostrozza.bsky.social & @timriffe1.bsky.social !
🔗 tinyurl.com/HLEgenus
📌01/06/2026
#demography

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · 26d

@brunoarpino.bsky.social has just announced next meeting will be at EPC2026

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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · 26d

IIASA's Josephine Borghi: “Health systems are too often left reacting to climate shocks.”
IIASA research shows links from floods in Brazil to clean cooking in South Africa—health must be central to climate policy.
#ScienceInAction

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · 26d

Exciting news looking forward to it

IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · 27d

🌍🤝 IIASA and @lshtm.bsky.social have signed a five-year MoU to tackle global health and climate challenges.

Together we will advance One Health, integrate health into IIASA models, explore climate-nature-health links, and build capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

More 👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...

Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · 26d

These were four very interesting papers on care demand and supply gap, potential intergenerational conflict as well as caregivers well-being

Ageing Sociology Vienna @ageingsocvienna.bsky.social · 27d

"Sustainable ageing goes beyond demographic change" says @webervienna.bsky.social in taking on the discussant role for the first session of the 1st Conference of the #SustainableAgeing @eaps.bsky.social working group

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · 26d

After a great conference yesterday, I am looking forward to today's presentation - including keynote from Pearl Dykstra.

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · 27d

@valeriabordone.bsky.social and @brunoarpino.bsky.social just kicked off the 1st #EAPS #sustainable #aging workshop in #Padova looking forward to two inspiring days.

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · Jun 16

Great to see Saroja from @mpidr.bsky.social at @iiasa.ac.at and attending her interesting talk. Very nice research

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · Jun 16

This paper results from my @oeaw.bsky.social APART research project. Happy to see this paper published in @vypr.bsky.social thank you @tarnhold.bsky.social and @viktoriaszenkuroek.bsky.social for this great collaboration.

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

#demography
@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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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · Mar 4

Call for WIC conference on #demography and #migration see below 👎

Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · Mar 4

The next Wittgenstein Centre Conference will be on “𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆”. 🤓

See the conference call and submit your abstracts here ⬇️
www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/c...

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · Mar 4

Looking forward to #ATHEA 2025 @ihs.ac.at this Thursday and Friday. Get insight on research from Austrian health econ. Community! @iiasa.ac.at will be represented as well 👍👍
iiasa.ac.at/events/mar-2...

8th ATHEA Conference

IIASA researchers will be attending the 8th ATHEA Conference, "Status Quo and New Directions for Austrian Health Economics", organized by the Austrian Health Economics Association (ATHEA) in Vienna.

iiasa.ac.at

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Bruno Arpino @brunoarpino.bsky.social · Jan 9

Happy new year everyone! I wish you all to age sustainably 🙂

Submit! Submit! Submit!
Share! Share! Share!
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Bruno Arpino @brunoarpino.bsky.social · Dec 4

The Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies announces its first conference!

11-12 September 2025
Padua, Italy

Deadline for submissions: 21 March 2025

See the attached call for papers for further details tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c

@valeriabordone.bsky.social

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GENUS @genus.bsky.social · Jan 9

Higher education fosters favourable attitudes toward immigration, but context matters.
👉 Analysis of 15 countries over 16 years reveals significant differences between Eastern and non-Eastern Europe.

New paper by Umansky, @webervienna.bsky.social & Lutz.

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

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WFRN.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social · Jan 8

Did you register for the next WFRN.bsky.social Virtual Plenary? Coming soon! Going Back? Gender, Work, and Family in 2025 focuses on the stalled/unfinished gender revolution in the public and private spheres. Held on January 24 or 25, depending on your time zone. wfrn.org/news/registe...

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · Jan 6

First publication in 2025🥳
We showed: higher education fosters favorable attitudes toward immigration, but context matters - significant differences between Eastern and non-Eastern Europe
Here link to our @genus.bsky.social article
doi.org/10.1186/s411...

Revisiting the role of education in attitudes toward immigration in different contexts in Europe - Genus

Among the individual determinants of attitudes toward immigration, the liberalising role of education is well known—those with higher levels of education tend to be more in favour of immigration. Howe...

doi.org

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Vegard Skirbekk @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social · Dec 22

Cohort fertility in Greenland still above replacement fertility.

Women born in 1985 had two children already by the early 30s.

bank.stat.gl/Resources/PX...

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · Dec 19

Interesting TT job opportunity

Aïda Solé-Auró @asoleauro.bsky.social · Dec 18

📢 JOB ALERT

We are seeking candidates for a new position in DEMOGRAPHY & POPULATION HEALTH!

⏰Apply by: FEB 2nd 2025
More info 👇

DemoSoc UPF @demosocupf.bsky.social · Dec 18

We are hiring!! (2 positions) TT Assistant Professor position in #Demography and Population Health. DEADLINE 02/02/25 Please share
www.upf.edu/web/politiqu... #sociology

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Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹 @raquelrguima.bsky.social · Dec 19

Easterlin played an important role in shaping my academic path as a demographer and economist. His studies on cohorts, fertility, happiness, and well-being show how closely demography and economics are connected and how much we can learn from this intersection. #RIP

IZA @iza.org · Dec 19

RIP Richard Easterlin. His legacy lives on.
newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/n...

In Memoriam: Richard A. Easterlin

Honoring an IZA Prize Laureate and groundbreaking pioneer in the economics of happiness

newsroom.iza.org

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · Dec 11

I would like to join could you please add my name

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Daniela Weber @webervienna.bsky.social · Dec 11

Some super relevant support when revising a paper

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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Dec 9

Europe's population will start declining in 2026. "Migration can help momentarily, but in order to compensate for a declining workforce, a country needs to have a constant flow of migrants," says IIASA's Anne Goujon in this Newsweek article.
👉 www.newsweek.com/europe-popul...

Europe's population crisis

The EU could account for just 4.1 percent of the global population by 2100.

www.newsweek.com

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Lucy van de Wiel @lucyvandewiel.bsky.social · Nov 21

Giving a keynote in this amazing space tomorrow for the Wittgenstein Centre's Conference: Delayed Reproduction - Challenges and Prospects. #reproduction #demography #fertility #Vienna

Conference hall with beautiful mural paintings on the ceiling.

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