Why is life expectancy in England & Wales falling behind? A cause-of-death decomposition approach doi.org/10.1080/0032...

A pleasure to work with the brilliant @polizzan.bsky.social @andreatilstra.bsky.social & @luyinz.bsky.social on this paper! #demography #mortality #episky

Antonino Polizzi@polizzan.bsky.social · last wk.

Just out! 📢 "Why is life expectancy in England & Wales falling behind?" We used a decomposition approach to understand why life expectancy improvements in E&W lagged behind other European countries between 2011 and 2019. 📉 The findings might surprise you. 🔍📄 doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2026.2682462 1/N

Just out! 📢 "Why is life expectancy in England & Wales falling behind?" We used a decomposition approach to understand why life expectancy improvements in E&W lagged behind other European countries between 2011 and 2019. 📉 The findings might surprise you. 🔍📄 doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2026.2682462 1/N

Definitely worth a read! 👇 It was great to be part of this amazing team during my PhD. 🤓

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 2mo ago

Year after year, life expectancy rose. Until it didn’t ⏳ ERC grantee Jennifer Dowd @ox.ac.uk investigates the social, economic, and biological forces shaping mortality trends today. 🔗 Read the full story here: buff.ly/BH8l63N #LifeExpectancy #PopulationHealth #FrontierResearch

Update: I finally had my official graduation ceremony and didn't want this beautiful photo with my wonderful friends @thegargiulian.bsky.social and @andreatilstra.bsky.social go unnoticed. 👩‍👩‍👦 Thanks to our photographer @sanderwagner.bsky.social! 📸

Antonino Polizzi@polizzan.bsky.social · last yr.

Feeling bittersweet as I read this wonderful thread and reflect on my time at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, + @sociologyoxford.bsky.social coming to a close. Immensely grateful to my supervisors, assessors, colleagues, + friends for making this journey so meaningful. 👨‍🎓📜

Join us for our meeting of the Formal Demography Working Group tomorrow! 👇

Monica Alexander@monjalexander.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Formal Demography Working Group is meeting tomorrow, April 23, at 11am ET (8am PT, 5pm CET)! Nik van der Wagt (UC Berkeley) will present work on "Population Momentum from Replacement Migration." Sign up for Zoom Link! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

📢 Check out these two new publications involving PSG members Maria Gargiulo (@thegargiulian.bsky.social) and José Manuel Aburto!

Check out this great thread summarizing our recent paper "Temporary Shock or Lasting Scar?" 👇

Jenn Dowd@drjenndowd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

Five years after the pandemic began, have countries returned to their pre-COVID life expectancy trajectories? New research shows 31 of 34 high-income countries still have life expectancy deficits in 2024, suggesting lasting effects on population health. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-lcd...

New LCDS Preprint Asks: Has COVID-19 Left a Lasting Scar on Life Expectancy?

Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, an important question remains: was COVID-19 a short-lived mortality shock, or has it more permanently altered life expectancy trajectories? A new p...

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📈 New preprint on life expectancy trajectories in high-income countries since 2020. 📉 Joint work with a great team from @mpidr.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @psglshtm.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social Link below. 👇

Jonas Schöley@jschoeley.com · 5mo ago

"Temporary shock or lasting scar?" By 2024 nearly all high-income countries remained below their pre-pandemic life expectancy trends. We identify four distinct mortality shock patterns since 2020. Full analysis in our preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am grateful for this recognition of my work. Congratulations to everyone whose work has been honored in memory of our late fellow student Julia Mead Knox.

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University@oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🥈 Runner-Up: Antonino Polizzi 🥈 Recognised for his work: “Why is life expectancy in England and Wales falling behind? A cause-of-death decomposition approach.” Find it here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Happy birth, TPN! Really great line-up. 👏

Monica Alexander@monjalexander.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social Seminar Series is happening this semester, with a great line-up, including @lucampesando.bsky.social, Orsola Torrisi, @mdhayward.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social! Starts next Tuesday. If you're in Toronto please come along!

Is it really #OpenAccessWeek if you haven't read some of our newly published #OpenAccess articles? 🎤 What matters to politicians: spr.ly/6000AsV7a 🍼 Fertility, birth, reproduction: spr.ly/6000AsnDY 🗾 Sexual inactivity in Japan: spr.ly/6008AsnHQ Happy reading & researching!

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the session for their valuable insights and engaging discussions!💡

Very kind reading recommendation from @amandajean.bsky.social: My new paper "Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks" with Annette Baudisch. 🤓 Just out in Population Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0032...

Amanda Jean Stevenson@amandajean.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I love you, European demographers. Please never, ever change ❤️

✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n doi.org/10.1080/0032... @sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks

The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...

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Feeling bittersweet as I read this wonderful thread and reflect on my time at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, + @sociologyoxford.bsky.social coming to a close. Immensely grateful to my supervisors, assessors, colleagues, + friends for making this journey so meaningful. 👨‍🎓📜

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University@oxforddemsci.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography

👋👋👋WelcomeWeeks @mpidr.bsky.social! We are happy to welcome @polizzan.bsky.social! He is a new member in the Laboratory of Population Health at the Department of Social Demography. Welcome Antonino! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

👏 Kudos to @andreatilstra.bsky.social @polizzan.bsky.social @sanderwagner.bsky.social and Eva Akimova whose @naturecomms.bsky.social paper is among the top 25 most downloaded in social science and human behaviour for 2024 buff.ly/NmynGFV

Top 25 Social Science & Human Behavior Articles of 2024

Browse the 25 most downloaded Nature Communications articles in social science and human behavior published in 2024

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New @pnasnexus.org: How did non-COVID causes of death affect life expectancy (LE) in 2015-2022? 📑 tl;dr: By 2022, many of the 24 countries examined had NOT recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Rising cardiovascular and substance/external mortality prevented larger LE gains. 📉 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

New @socarxiv.bsky.social preprint! 🚨 In "An integrated formal demographic fertility framework", A. Baudisch & I present new functions to describe population-level fertility age patterns—useful for modeling & forecasting? 🌟 📖 doi.org/10.31235/osf... @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @imprs-phds.bsky.social

What’s the best way to analyze #lifeexpectancy stagnation in the US? 🤔 In PNAS, @drjenndowd.bsky.social & I share our thoughts on a recent paper by Abrams, Myrskylä & Mehta. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318276121 @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social (1)