Research Group

Mortality Inequalities

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Modeling the Timing of Health Deterioration and Death: A Formal Demographic Approach (Dissertation)

Chiara Micheletti, Alyson van Raalte, Iñaki Permanyer (Centre for Demographic Studies (CED), Spain); in Collaboration with Francisco Villavicencio (University of Barcelona, Spain), Pekka Martikainen (MPIDR), Shubhankar Sharma (University of Helsinki, Finland)

This doctoral project develops and applies novel methodologies to investigate how longer lives are shaped by chronic conditions. Using Finnish and Danish register data, it examines trends and inequalities by sex and educational attainment.  Detailed Description

Publications

Micheletti, C.; Strozza, C.; van Raalte, A. A.; Permanyer, I.:

Compression or expansion of morbidity: evaluating life expectancy with and without cardiovascular diseases in Denmark

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-027. (2026)    

Micheletti, C.; Villavicencio, F.:

On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy

Demographic Research 51:24, 763–788. (2024)