Very proud to see my just finished MA student Maximilian Kabas presenting his MA topic: summer energy poverty and health outcomes. At 9th #ATHEA taking place today and tomorrow at @ihs.ac.at
Daniela Weber
@webervienna.bsky.social
Social science, health economics, and demography #healthy aging #EqualityForAll #aging #climate impact @IIASA and @wu_wien
Joint work with @drmengxing.bsky.social and @anne-goujon.bsky.social just been published in Sociology of Health & Illness rb.gy/jyqj8j It started as @iiasa.ac.at #YSSP and resulted in a very nice publication on #loneliness trajectories of #older adults. Perfect time prior to Christmas!
🎉 Congratulations to our team member @mksicabaraban.bsky.social on her first PhD paper publication 👏 in The Journals of #Gerontology! Co-authors: @valeriabordone.bsky.social @webervienna.bsky.social #OpenAccess 👇 and a 🧵 below
📄New publication from Team Bordone! @mksicabaraban.bsky.social, @valeriabordone.bsky.social and Daniela Weber in The Journals of Gerontology. Resource or crisis? Cognitive functioning after widowhood and why paid work status matters. @ageingsocvienna.bsky.social academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
It's always a pleasure to work with so talented early-career scientists! Big thank you also to our funder @wwtf.at for funding our #CHIAS project here at @ifswien.bsky.social and @iiasa.ac.at
Great collaboration with #CHIAS PIs @valeriabordone.bsky.social @webervienna.bsky.social 🥳 Grateful also to the reviewers for their helpful feedback 🤗
Finally, Robert Zniva and I worked together on our common interest #aging we united the disciplines #marketing #public_health and #demography in our paper on measuring aging! 👉👉👉https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2025.2559922
Very interesting special issue to come!
📢 Papers from #REVES2026 with a focus on new methods for analyzing healthy life expectancy and inequalities will be great candidates for the @genus.bsky.social Healthy Life Expectancy collection by @cosmostrozza.bsky.social & @timriffe1.bsky.social ! 🔗 tinyurl.com/HLEgenus 📌01/06/2026 #demography
IIASA's Josephine Borghi: “Health systems are too often left reacting to climate shocks.” IIASA research shows links from floods in Brazil to clean cooking in South Africa—health must be central to climate policy. #ScienceInAction
Exciting news looking forward to it
🌍🤝 IIASA and @lshtm.bsky.social have signed a five-year MoU to tackle global health and climate challenges. Together we will advance One Health, integrate health into IIASA models, explore climate-nature-health links, and build capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa. More 👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
These were four very interesting papers on care demand and supply gap, potential intergenerational conflict as well as caregivers well-being
"Sustainable ageing goes beyond demographic change" says @webervienna.bsky.social in taking on the discussant role for the first session of the 1st Conference of the #SustainableAgeing @eaps.bsky.social working group
After a great conference yesterday, I am looking forward to today's presentation - including keynote from Pearl Dykstra.
📢 The 1st Conference of the EAPS Working Group on Sustainable Ageing will take place in Padova, Italy, on 11–12 September 2025. The program features around 50 presentations on ageing, intergenerational relations, and digitalization and more. ℹ️More information: www.eaps.nl/page/sustain...
@valeriabordone.bsky.social and @brunoarpino.bsky.social just kicked off the 1st #EAPS #sustainable #aging workshop in #Padova looking forward to two inspiring days.
Great to see Saroja from @mpidr.bsky.social at @iiasa.ac.at and attending her interesting talk. Very nice research
This paper results from my @oeaw.bsky.social APART research project. Happy to see this paper published in @vypr.bsky.social thank you @tarnhold.bsky.social and @viktoriaszenkuroek.bsky.social for this great collaboration.
🚨 New Data&Trends out on @vypr.bsky.social ! @tarnhold.bsky.social, @viktoriaszenkuroek.bsky.social & @webervienna.bsky.social use Gini coefficients to examine inequalities in physical and cognitive functioning of older adults in 🔗 tinyurl.com/VYPR25-07 #demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social
Call for WIC conference on #demography and #migration see below 👎
The next Wittgenstein Centre Conference will be on “𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆”. 🤓 See the conference call and submit your abstracts here ⬇️ www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/c...
Looking forward to #ATHEA 2025 @ihs.ac.at this Thursday and Friday. Get insight on research from Austrian health econ. Community! @iiasa.ac.at will be represented as well 👍👍 iiasa.ac.at/events/mar-2...
8th ATHEA Conference
IIASA researchers will be attending the 8th ATHEA Conference, "Status Quo and New Directions for Austrian Health Economics", organized by the Austrian Health Economics Association (ATHEA) in Vienna.
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Happy new year everyone! I wish you all to age sustainably 🙂 Submit! Submit! Submit! Share! Share! Share! 🙏
The Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies announces its first conference! 11-12 September 2025 Padua, Italy Deadline for submissions: 21 March 2025 See the attached call for papers for further details tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c @valeriabordone.bsky.social
Higher education fosters favourable attitudes toward immigration, but context matters. 👉 Analysis of 15 countries over 16 years reveals significant differences between Eastern and non-Eastern Europe. New paper by Umansky, @webervienna.bsky.social & Lutz. 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Did you register for the next WFRN.bsky.social Virtual Plenary? Coming soon! Going Back? Gender, Work, and Family in 2025 focuses on the stalled/unfinished gender revolution in the public and private spheres. Held on January 24 or 25, depending on your time zone. wfrn.org/news/registe...
WFRN.bsky.social (@wfrn.bsky.social)
The Work and Family Researchers Network is the premier 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional association for work-family scholars and leaders.
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Register Now for the Next WFRN.bsky.social Virtual Plenary – Going Back? Gender, Work, and Family in 2025 focuses on the stalled/unfinished gender revolution in the public and private spheres. Held on January 24 or 25, depending on your time zone. wfrn.org/news/registe...
First publication in 2025🥳 We showed: higher education fosters favorable attitudes toward immigration, but context matters - significant differences between Eastern and non-Eastern Europe Here link to our @genus.bsky.social article doi.org/10.1186/s411...
Revisiting the role of education in attitudes toward immigration in different contexts in Europe - Genus
Among the individual determinants of attitudes toward immigration, the liberalising role of education is well known—those with higher levels of education tend to be more in favour of immigration. Howe...
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Cohort fertility in Greenland still above replacement fertility. Women born in 1985 had two children already by the early 30s. bank.stat.gl/Resources/PX...
Easterlin played an important role in shaping my academic path as a demographer and economist. His studies on cohorts, fertility, happiness, and well-being show how closely demography and economics are connected and how much we can learn from this intersection. #RIP
RIP Richard Easterlin. His legacy lives on. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/n...
Europe's population will start declining in 2026. "Migration can help momentarily, but in order to compensate for a declining workforce, a country needs to have a constant flow of migrants," says IIASA's Anne Goujon in this Newsweek article. 👉 www.newsweek.com/europe-popul...
Europe's population crisis
The EU could account for just 4.1 percent of the global population by 2100.
newsweek.com
Giving a keynote in this amazing space tomorrow for the Wittgenstein Centre's Conference: Delayed Reproduction - Challenges and Prospects. #reproduction #demography #fertility #Vienna
Our new article on #unmet need is out. Joint work with @viktoriaszenkuroek.bsky.social & M.Bilger link.springer.com/article/10.1... #LTC #aging #Europe @healthyaging.bsky.social
Job opportunity in Vienna
The Research Group on Health and Longevity led by Marc Luy at the Vienna Institute of Demography is hiring!!! This is the coolest group and institute you will have the opportunity to work at! Plus, it's on beautiful Vienna. Apply!!! www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/about/ne...
Interesting and very relevant special issue....call is still open
🤓 The year is starting and our call for papers is open until 31 May 2024. Submit your contribution to the #VYPR2025 issue on "Population Inequality Matters". We welcome different types of submissions. Check out in our website! #demography #sociology www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/publicat...
🎉Just out online on the #2024VYPR!!! Emma Engström and @martinkolk.bsky.social explore the interrelations between population, affluence and technology for various environmental impacts using IPAT-type modelling @vypr.bsky.social #demography doi.org/10.1553/p-n5...
Thank you for having me there. I really enjoyed the discussions with your sharp minded students of @univie.ac.at a lot.
So happy to have @webervienna.bsky.social as guest today in my course Sociology of Ageing @ifswien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at . She is giving a talk on #cognition and #healthyageing