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Vanessa di Lego
@vdilego.bsky.social
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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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rebeccasear.bsky.social
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

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Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
vdilego.bsky.social
anyone having issues to submit to #EPC2026? All my browsers crash...of course I used up all deadline 😜
November 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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demographyvienna.bsky.social
📖 New special issue: "Levels and Trends of Health Expectancy"! With introduction by Marc Luy, @pdigiulio.bsky.social, @vdilego.bsky.social, @lazarevic.bsky.social, @mmuszynskas.bsky.social and Markus Sauerberg.
🔗 Read now: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP... #demography
Special Issues | Comparative Population Studies
www.comparativepopulationstudies.de
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
vdilego.bsky.social
Amazing debate relating the consequences of AI and fertility decisions!
@vypr.bsky.social #demography @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
vypr.bsky.social Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · 24d
‼️New Debate on @vypr.bsky.social! Alícia Adserà ponders on how artificial intelligence (AI) is propelling a new phase of technological change beyond routine automation: AI directly impacts fertility decisions 🔗https://austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0x0040deb0
@demographyvienna.bsky.social #demography
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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sdafable.bsky.social
Hot off the press 🔥 My first PhD chapter is now published as a research article in Population, Space and Place! @mpidr.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social

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Health Decline and Residential Transitions Among Older Adults in Europe
Residential mobility is a possible strategy to cope with health challenges in later life. However, little research has examined whether and how health decline triggers residential mobility and whethe...
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September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
vdilego.bsky.social
what a beautiful paper!
October 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
vdilego.bsky.social
For our next seminar at the Demography Department at Cedeplar, UFMG, we have the extraordinary Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social presenting. Don´t miss it! The Zoom link is below. We see you all tomorrow, October 8, at 2 pm Brazilian time 👇 💡
Zoom link: lnkd.in/e5UC-M54
#demography
October 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
vdilego.bsky.social
amazing to have Ayaga Bawah at the Cedeplar Seminar today! there is still time if you want to tune in:
us02web.zoom.us/j/5893735785
#demography
September 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
vdilego.bsky.social
Come and check out our next Formal Demography Working Group meeting with @phbocquier.bsky.social ! Sign up on our website to receive the link. If you have an ideia/paper/ work in progress you would like to present please feel free to reach out to us!
formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
September 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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cosmostrozza.bsky.social
Health demographers 📣
Calling for submissions to our w. @timriffe1.bsky.social
Healthy Life Expectancy methodology collection on @genus.bsky.social! We're seeking innovative approaches to statistical modelling and empirical analysis of health inequalities 📈
📆 Submission deadline: 01/06/26
🔗 Link 👇
Healthy Life Expectancy: New Methods, New Insights
As countries worldwide experience population aging, understanding not just how long people live, but how many of those years are spent in good health, has ...
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September 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
vdilego.bsky.social
Recalling that COVID still ranks in the top 10 causes of death in the US since 2023, while it ranked third in 2021-2022! So it had not only an important impact during the height of the pandemic, but it also remained a leading cause of death overall thereafter.
drjenndowd.bsky.social Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · Sep 9
Persistent minimizing of the COVID death toll hits me especially hard in the #demography feels. To be clear:

➡️ Over one million Americans died of COVID-19.

➡️ Official COVID deaths were likely undercounted, not overcounted.

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How many people died of COVID?
We likely undercounted, not overcounted COVID deaths
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September 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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It his me hard in the emergency doctor feels as well. I’d never seen so many healthy 30 something’s struggling to breathe since the pre-vaccine pandemic.
drjenndowd.bsky.social Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · Sep 9
Persistent minimizing of the COVID death toll hits me especially hard in the #demography feels. To be clear:

➡️ Over one million Americans died of COVID-19.

➡️ Official COVID deaths were likely undercounted, not overcounted.

jenndowd.substack.com/p/how-many-p...
How many people died of COVID?
We likely undercounted, not overcounted COVID deaths
jenndowd.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
vdilego.bsky.social
Is low fertility a problem?
karenguzzo.bsky.social Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Sep 9
Exactly why is low fertility a problem? Demographer Oystein Kravdal does a deep dive into the reasoning and concludes that low birth rates aren’t inherently problematic.
Concerns about low fertility: Steps towards a clearer debate and perhaps less alarmism | Population Europe
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September 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
vdilego.bsky.social
Beautiful paper by Emmanuel Idohou, together with Philippe Bocquier, and Michel Guillot on the role of parental origin in explaining the significant disparities that immigrant children in France face in terms of their survival. Super relevant (with sad results) work!
vypr.bsky.social Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · Jul 23
They find that disparities 📈in under-five mortality persist based on the mother’s origin.
July 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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monjalexander.bsky.social
Just posted the recording of @hggaddy.bsky.social's talk on Challenges in Estimating Crisis Mortality, you can check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCNI...
Formal demography working group meeting 11
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May 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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pdigiulio.bsky.social
📊🔎Indirect estimations show that Roma and Travellers experience an extraordinary disadvantage in terms of #lifeexpectancy, according to data from 17 European countries by @fra.europa.eu

Forthcoming at tinyurl.com/VID-WP
Check also the other @demographyvienna.bsky.social WPs!

#IPC2025
#demography
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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florenceups.bsky.social
The University of Florence offers 4 positions within the PhD in Life Course Research!

🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing
🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility

Come join us in Florence! 👇👇
aisp-sis.bsky.social AISP @aisp-sis.bsky.social · Jul 16
📢 Applications open for the National PhD Program in Life Course Research!

👉 12 fully funded positions in Demography and Social Statistics, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to studying life courses.

🗓 Deadline: August 7
📍 More info: www.phd-lcr.com
📄 To apply: www.unifi.it/sites/defaul...
​The PhD program in Life Course Research will train a new generation of highly skilled scholars relying on an evidence-based approach, with a strong emphasis on quantitative methods and data analysis.
www.phd-lcr.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
vdilego.bsky.social
This #Debate from @vypr.bsky.social demonstrates how looking into national-level data can obscure important internal diversity for some population characteristics. This goes in hand with all recent debate in #demography that we should move beyond averages and include more heterogeneity.📈
July 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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hggaddy.bsky.social
When people talk about other people not having "enough" children, remember that fertility rates have been roughly this low in much of Europe since the 1970s *and* some European countries had rates below 2 in the 1920s and 30s!

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May 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
vdilego.bsky.social
Reach out if you would like to present your work and discuss with other folks that are into formal demography 🤓👇 you can just fill out this form: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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May 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
vdilego.bsky.social
The Formal Demography Working Group is back and we have an open schedule! So, if you would like to present just feel free to reach out to us at formaldemography@gmail.com. It can be your work in progress or simply ideas you would like to share and discuss with other like-minded fellows!
vdilego.bsky.social Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · May 7
😀We are back! Check out @hggaddy.bsky.social talking about challenges in estimating crisis mortality at the formal dempgraphy working group meeting! Super excited to resume activities alongside @monjalexander.bsky.social ! Sign up at formaldemography.github.io/working_group/ 👇
May 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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eugeniopaglino.bsky.social
🚨 New article out in Social Science & Medicine!
Irma Elo and I take a deeper look at trends in life expectancy for foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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US-Born and Foreign-born Life Expectancy by Race and Hispanic Origin before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Interdisciplinary health scholarship has long documented the lower mortality of the foreign-born compared to the US-born populations. In this study, w…
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May 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
vdilego.bsky.social
It´s happening and @hggaddy.bsky.social is discussing, among other issues, how temporal disaggregation for time series analysis of mortality is a solution for a need for spatial disaggregation - which creates death toll underestimation!
May 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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monjalexander.bsky.social
Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
Welcome
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May 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
vdilego.bsky.social
New Data & Trends paper out on the Vienna Yearbook @vypr.bsky.social ! Check out how to use Gini coefficient to examine inequalities in physical and cognitive functioning of older adults 👇
#demography
@demographyvienna.bsky.social
vypr.bsky.social Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · May 6
🚨 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
The figure shows the relationship between the Gini estimates and medians of handgrip strength, immediate recall and verbal fluency for selected country’s population aged 60 to 74, in three panels. Note: The x-axis represents the health equality, measured as 1−𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑖̂. The y-axis represents the estimated country median. The upper left of the tables shows the coefficients and their significance levels when regressing the median on 1−𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑖̂ (Confidence levels: * p<0.05; ** p<0.01; *** p<0.001). The solid line represents a regression line, with the grey area denoting the standard errors. Austria = AT, Belgium = BE, Brazil = BR, Bulgaria = BG, Chile = CL, China = CN, Croatia = HR, Cyprus = CY, Czechia = CZ, Denmark = DK, England = GB, Estonia = EE, Finland = FI, France = FR, Germany = DE, Ghana = GH, Greece = GR, Hungary = HU, India = IN, Indonesia = ID, Ireland = IE, Israel = IL, Italy = IT, Japan = JP, Latvia = LV, Lithuania = LT, Luxembourg = LU, Malta = MT, Mexico = MX, Netherlands = NL, Poland = PL, Portugal = PT, Romania = RO, Russia = RU, Slovakia = SK, Slovenia = SI, South Africa = ZA, Spain = ES, Sweden = SE, Switzerland = CH, USA = US.
May 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM