Sha Jiang
@shajiang.bsky.social
Demographer & "Professional" Cat Sitter 🐈| Postdoc @mpidr.bsky.social | PhD @Stanford, Biology '23
Lifespan is uncertain, even for well-informed individuals. We show that this irreducible demographic risk increases with delayed pension claiming and hits male and low-income groups harder. www.niussp.org/education-wo...
September 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Lifespan is uncertain, even for well-informed individuals. We show that this irreducible demographic risk increases with delayed pension claiming and hits male and low-income groups harder. www.niussp.org/education-wo...
How would peers of similar ages experience different kinship networks? The speed of demographic transition is the key.
🆕📰Rapid Demographic Changes Reshape Family Structures: Accelerated demographic change is creating significant differences in the number of relatives between peers of similar ages shows a study by @shajiang.bsky.social et al. in @readdemography.bsky.social. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rapidchange
July 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
How would peers of similar ages experience different kinship networks? The speed of demographic transition is the key.
Check out our work on pension claiming in the U.S.
🔦[SPOTLIGHT] Should you Claim Your #Pension Early or Wait? Retiring later increases the monthly pension amount in the US. @shajiang.bsky.social et al. have investigated whether this is optimal, given the uncertainties surrounding #LifeSpan. What they found:
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/USApension
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/USApension
June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Check out our work on pension claiming in the U.S.
Reposted by Sha Jiang
Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...
June 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...
Reposted by Sha Jiang
In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @shajiang.bsky.social W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number & age of kin” & kin networks. @stanford.edu @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
June 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @shajiang.bsky.social W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number & age of kin” & kin networks. @stanford.edu @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Excited to join this amazing program as a supervisor—a new and meaningful role for me! Grateful to everyone who made this event possible!
💡💡💡We are delighted to welcome @imprs-phds.bsky.social students and their supervisors to the Annual Academy 2024 @mpidr.bsky.social. We're looking forward to two more days of student and faculty presentations, networking, and sharing future research endeavors. 🎓🎓🎓
#demography #phdlife #PhD
#demography #phdlife #PhD
December 6, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Excited to join this amazing program as a supervisor—a new and meaningful role for me! Grateful to everyone who made this event possible!