Research Group

Lifespan Inequalities

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Patterns and Drivers of Mortality Inequality Across Space, Time, and Socioeconomic Status

Conducted by Alyson van Raalte; Marília R. Nepomuceno; in Collaboration with Timothy Riffe (Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain), José Manuel Aburto (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom), Vanessa Di Lego (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria), Nikkil Sudharsanan (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Orsola Torrisi (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Pavel Grigoriev, Sebastian Klüsener (both: Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany)

Inequality in length-of-life is pervasive. This project documents the patterns and drivers of inequality over time, across space, and between subnational populations. We investigate whether our theories of mortality convergence are consistent with the empirical evidence from across the globe.  Detailed Description

Publications

Aburto, J. M.; Di Lego, V.; Riffe, T.; Kashyap, R.; van Raalte, A. A.; Torrisi, O.:

A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty

Science Advances 9:5, 1–10. (2023)    

Grigoriev, P.; Klüsener, S.; van Raalte, A. A.:

Quantifying the contribution of smoking to regional mortality disparities in Germany: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open 12:9, e064249–e064249. (2022)    

Sudharsanan, N.; Aburto, J. M.; Riffe, T.; van Raalte, A. A.:

Large variation in the epidemiological transition across countries: is it still valuable as a mortality theory? [Commentary]

International Journal of Epidemiology 51:4, 1057–1061. (2022)    

van Raalte, A. A.:

What have we learned about mortality patterns over the past 25 years?

Population Studies 75:Suppl. 1, S105–S132. (2021)