Laboratory

Digital and Computational Demography

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Formal Demographic Approaches to the Study of Inequalities in Mortality and Kinship Resources

Ugofilippo Basellini, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Emilio Zagheni

In this project, we focus on the development of new formal relationships and methodologies to investigate demographic change across countries and over time, with a specific focus on inequalities in mortality, length of life, and availability of kinship resources.  Detailed Description

Publications

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Barban, N.; Caswell, H.; Kolk, M.; Margolis, R.; Smith-Greenaway, E.; Song, X.; Verdery, A.; Zagheni, E.:

Kinship, demography, and inequality: review and key areas for future development

SocArxiv papers. unpublished. (2022)    

Chong, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Del Fava, E.; Alexander, M.; Zagheni, E.:

Identifying and correcting bias in big crowd-sourced online genealogies

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-005. (2022)    

Snyder, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Zagheni, E.:

Estimates from 31 countries show the significant impact of COVID-19 excess mortality on the incidence of family bereavement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:26, e2202686119–e2202686119. (2022)    

Stelter, R.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Representativeness is crucial for inferring demographic processes from online genealogies: evidence from lifespan dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:10, e2120455119–e2120455119. (2022)    

Aburto, J. M.; Basellini, U.; Baudisch, A.; Villavicencio, F.:

Drewnowski's index to measure lifespan variation: revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table

arXiv e-prints 2111.11256. unpublished. (2021)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mason, C.; Zagheni, E.:

The “Sandwich Generation” revisited: global demographic drivers of care time demands

Population and Development Review 47:4, 997–1023. (2021)    

Martinez-Folgar, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Paniagua-Avila, A.; Ramirez-Zea, M.; Bilal, U.:

Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala

American Journal of Public Health 0:0, e1–e8. (2021)    

Williams, I.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Mortality change and its impact on child survival

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-001. (2021)    

Aburto, J. M.; Villavicencio, F.; Basellini, U.; Kjærgaard, S.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:10, 5250–5259. (2020)