Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

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Steadily increasing longevity is both an impressive achievement and a major challenge for the developed world. Continued improvements in life expectancy inevitably contribute to population aging, and are expected to strongly decrease the worker-to-non-worker ratio. The extent to which increasing longevity is good news at the individual and societal level depends on the answers to two key questions. First, are the extra years of life spent in good or in poor health? Second, how is increasing longevity distributed between work and retirement? Research being conducted at the laboratory of Population Health focuses on these two questions.   Detailed Description

Selected Publications

Mehta, N. K.; Abrams, L. R.; Myrskylä, M.:

US life expectancy stalls due to cardiovascular disease, not drug deaths

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:13, 6998–7000. (2020)    

Riffe, T.; Aburto, J. M.:

Lexis fields

Demographic Research 42:24, 713–726. (2020)       

Vierboom, Y. C.; Preston, S. H.:

Life beyond 65: changing spatial patterns of survival at older ages in the United States, 2000-2016

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 75:5, 1093–1103. (2020)       

Bijlsma, M. J.; Wilson, B.; Tarkiainen, L.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

The impact of unemployment on antidepressant purchasing: adjusting for unobserved time-constant confounding in the g-formula

Epidemiology 30:3, 388–395. (2019)    

Acosta, E.; Hallman, S. A.; Dillon, L. Y.; Ouellette, N.; Bourbeau, R. R.; Herring, D. A.; Inwood, K.; Earn, D. J. D.; Madrenas, J.; Miller, M. S.; Gagnon, A.:

Determinants of influenza mortality trends: age-period-cohort analysis of influenza mortality in the United States, 1959–2016

Demography 56:5, 1723–1746. (2019)