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Vanessa di Lego

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Professor of Demography, Faculty of Economics. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Cedeplar. Formal demography, mortality, health, gender differences https://cedeplar.ufmg.br/pos-graduacao/demografia/?aba=2#Professores

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Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 3mo ago

I know what you're thinking: What about the classic 1994 Coale and Banister paper, "Five Decades of Missing Females in China," that Cohen teaches in demography seminars? Through four of those decades, they are talking about living girls that died from infanticide or neglect. That's different. /4

Demography, Vol. 31, No. 3, August 1994 Five Decades of Missing Females in China Ansley J. Coale Senior Research Demographer, Office of Population Research Princeton University 21 Prospect Avenue Princeton, NJ 08540-2091 E-mail: coale@opr.Princeton.EDU Judith Banister Chief, Center for International Research Bureau of the Census Washington, DC 20233-3700 This paper seeks to explain the dearth of females in the population of China in cohorts born from the late 1930s to the present. We demonstrate that in virtually all cohorts, the shortage of females in comparison with males is revealed when the cohort is first enumerated in a census. Subsequently it barely changes, an indication that female losses occur very early in life. Using the high-quality data from the censuses and fertility surveys in China, we show that many of the births of the girls missing in the censuses were not reported in the surveys because they died very young. The incidence of excess early female mortality (probably infanticide) declined precipitously in the Communist period, but not to zero. The recent escalation in the proportion of young females missing in China has been caused largely by rapidly escalating sex-selective abortion.
Demographic Research@demresjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s been exactly 20 years since we published these two papers in the Special Collection on ‘Determinants of Diverging Trends in Mortality’: By Jacques Vallin & France Meslé: www.demographic-research.org/articles/spe... By France Meslé: www.demographic-research.org/articles/spe...

Demographic Research - Convergences and divergences in mortality: A new approach of health transition (Special Collection 2 - Article 2 | Pages 11–44)

Special Collection 2 - Article 2 | Pages 11–44

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Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 4mo ago

It’s a common misconception that life expectancy has increased only because fewer children die. Historical mortality records show that adults today also live much longer than adults in the past.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field@wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For bizarre and idiosyncratic reasons, the ONE job interview I got when I went on the market was for a dream university that had good reasons to want to hire… a formal demographer who could be recognized by a bunch of lefty social theorists as “one of us.” (!!!!)

Vanessa di Lego@vdilego.bsky.social · 5mo ago

‼️New paper! Together with Rami Cosulich and Virginia Zarulli we use statistical moments and a maximum entropy approach to derive and compare healthy longevity distributions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Deriving and comparing healthy longevity distributions by gender and health prevalence measures: a statistical moments and maximum entropy approach - Population Health Metrics

Background The literature on healthy longevity has typically focused on average values (i.e., healthy life expectancy). Recent studies have started to expand this focus by investigating the whole heal...

link.springer.com

Vanessa di Lego@vdilego.bsky.social · 5mo ago

‼️New paper! Together with Rami Cosulich and Virginia Zarulli we use statistical moments and a maximum entropy approach to derive and compare healthy longevity distributions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Deriving and comparing healthy longevity distributions by gender and health prevalence measures: a statistical moments and maximum entropy approach - Population Health Metrics

Background The literature on healthy longevity has typically focused on average values (i.e., healthy life expectancy). Recent studies have started to expand this focus by investigating the whole heal...

link.springer.com

Vanessa di Lego@vdilego.bsky.social · 5mo ago

‼️Check out our paper where we test the longevity hypothesis to discuss the mechanisms behind why women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health. 👇 @demographyvienna.bsky.social @ufmgbr.bsky.social

Springer@springer.springernature.com · 5mo ago

😷💉 Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? This study tests the “longevity hypothesis,” which posits that women’s greater number of years spent in poor health is primarily a direct consequence of their longer survival. bit.ly/3OQF7cD @vdilego.bsky.social

Vanessa di Lego@vdilego.bsky.social · 6mo ago

the Formal Demography Working Group is starting its year with a marvelous guest : Chiara Micheletti will present on CVD incidence and survival inequalities in Finland. Don’t forget to sign up 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾#demography

Monica Alexander@monjalexander.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Formal Demography Working Group is meeting next Thursday 5 Feb at 10am ET (4pm CET)! Chiara Micheletti will present work on CVD incidence and survival inequalities in Finland. Sign up for Zoom Link! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

Vanessa di Lego@vdilego.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New call for papers for the Vienna Yearbook is out @vypr.bsky.social ! The 2027 Special Issue will be on migration! See details on submission below👇

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR)@vypr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Call for papers is now open! We invite you to submit your contributions to the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2027 special issue "Demographic perspectives on migration". 📆 Submit until 15 May 2026. 🔗 viennayearbook.org/call #demography @vypr.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social