Forschungsgruppe

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Projekt

Population Composition as a Driver of Mortality Trends and Inequalities

Alyson van Raalte, Josephine Jackisch; in Zusammenarbeit mit Pekka Martikainen (MPIDR), Yana Vierboom (Princeton University, Vereinigte Staaten), Collin Payne (Australian National University, Canberra, Australien), Tianyu Shen (Vienna Institute of Demography, Österreich), Wen Su, Jennifer Dowd (beide: University of Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich von Großbritannien und Nordirland), Eugenio Paglino (University of Helsinki, Finnland)

This project tests the extent to which changing mortality inequalities are shaped by changing health and social characteristics across and within birth cohorts due to mortality selection and social change.  Ausführliche Beschreibung

Publikationen

Shen, T.; van Raalte, A. A.; Payne, C. F.:

Changing educational attainment as a driver of cohort changes in healthy longevity: a decomposition analysis of US birth cohorts

American Journal of Epidemiology 195:5, 1222–1230. (2026)    

Moretti, M.; Korhonen, K.; van Raalte, A. A.; Riffe, T.; Martikainen, P.:

Evolution of widowhood lifespan and its gender and educational inequalities in Finland over three decades

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2025)    

van Raalte, A. A.; Vierboom, Y. C.; Martikainen, P.:

Revisiting within-cohort compositional change to understand mortality inequalities

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 23, 1–15. (2025)    

Su, W.; van Raalte, A. A.; Aburto, J. M.; Canudas-Romo, V.:

Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: evidence from the United States

Demographic Research 50:22, 583–624. (2024)