Vanessa di Lego
@vdilego.bsky.social
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
https://cedeplar.ufmg.br/pos-graduacao/demografia/?aba=2#Professores
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So great to see Dmytro in Vienna again!
It was an honor to have Prof. Dmytro Sushpanov from Ukraine at #WIC2025 who is doing important work on projecting Ukrainian population
November 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So great to see Dmytro in Vienna again!
💡New paper out! Together with @marilianep.bsky.social and Cássio Turra, we show that using gender gaps in healthy life expectancy as a metric for gender inequality in health is misleading, masking important underlying gender differences in health and mortality.
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Gender gaps in healthy life expectancy as indicators of inequality for disability and chronic disease: cross-sectional evidence from 24 countries, years 2014–2019
Objective Gender gaps in healthy life expectancy are frequently used as indicators of health inequality between women and men. However, total gaps can be misleading—masking critical disparities such a...
bmjopen.bmj.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
💡New paper out! Together with @marilianep.bsky.social and Cássio Turra, we show that using gender gaps in healthy life expectancy as a metric for gender inequality in health is misleading, masking important underlying gender differences in health and mortality.
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
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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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October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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”"
www.prb.org/resources/se...
www.prb.org/resources/se...
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📖 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
🔗 Read now: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP... #demography
Special Issues
| Comparative Population Studies
www.comparativepopulationstudies.de
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
📖 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
🔗 Read now: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP... #demography
Amazing debate relating the consequences of AI and fertility decisions!
@vypr.bsky.social #demography @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
@vypr.bsky.social #demography @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
‼️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
@demographyvienna.bsky.social #demography
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Amazing debate relating the consequences of AI and fertility decisions!
@vypr.bsky.social #demography @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
@vypr.bsky.social #demography @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
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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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
what a beautiful paper!
✍️ 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
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@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...
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
what a beautiful paper!
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
Zoom link: lnkd.in/e5UC-M54
#demography
October 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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
Zoom link: lnkd.in/e5UC-M54
#demography
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
us02web.zoom.us/j/5893735785
#demography
September 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
us02web.zoom.us/j/5893735785
#demography
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/
formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
September 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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/
formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
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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 👇
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
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 👇
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 👇
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.
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...
➡️ 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 1:25 PM
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.
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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.
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...
➡️ 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
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.
Is low fertility a problem?
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
population-europe.eu
September 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Is low fertility a problem?
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!
They find that disparities 📈in under-five mortality persist based on the mother’s origin.
July 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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!
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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
YouTube video by Formal Demography
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May 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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...
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📊🔎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
Forthcoming at tinyurl.com/VID-WP
Check also the other @demographyvienna.bsky.social WPs!
#IPC2025
#demography
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
📊🔎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
Forthcoming at tinyurl.com/VID-WP
Check also the other @demographyvienna.bsky.social WPs!
#IPC2025
#demography
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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! 👇👇
🔹 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! 👇👇
📢 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...
👉 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
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! 👇👇
🔹 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! 👇👇
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
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.📈
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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!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
formaldemography.github.io/working_grou...
formaldemography.github.io/working_grou...
May 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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...
formaldemography.github.io/working_grou...
formaldemography.github.io/working_grou...
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!
😀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
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!