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Centre talk: Why has fertility more than halved?
Earlier this week, the Centre welcomed Norwegian demographer Vegard Skirbekk for a fascinating talk on the social and biological drivers...
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LCDS Media
- Sep 28
- 1 min
New study: How progressive is Sweden's pension system?
Published here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/doi/10.1215/00703370-10218779/318522/How-Does-Mortality-Contribute-to-Life...
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LCDS Media
- Sep 6
- 1 min
Nuffield College: Two Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology
Apply here: https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/jobs-and-vacancies/postdoctoral-prize-research-fellowships-in-sociology-two-posts/...
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LCDS Media
- Sep 1
- 1 min
Ridhi Kashyap receives full Professorship
Congratulations to the Centre’s Professor Ridhi Kashyap, who has been promoted to full Professor of Demography & Computational Social...
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LCDS Media
- Aug 31
- 2 min
Melinda Mills receives Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis
The Centre’s Director Melinda Mills has received the prestigious 2022 James W. Vaupel Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis from the...
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LCDS Media
- Aug 25
- 1 min
Research spotlight: How did COVID-19 exacerbate racial ethnic inequalities in the US?
Interview on: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2205813119 New research from the Centre highlights the dramatic racial ethnic...
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bradleysmith51
- Aug 23
- 3 min
Life expectancy losses unevenly shared in Chile during COVID-19
Press Release for: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/8/e059201 Life expectancy losses were unevenly shared in Chile during COVID-19,...
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Melinda Mills
- Jun 17
- 1 min
When, where & how do Londoners access 'real-time' air pollution information?
DPhil candidate Kayla Schulte’s article on this emerging genre of environmental information was published yesterday in the journal Big...
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Melinda Mills
- Jun 3
- 2 min
Mapping populations in the DRC using satellite-derived building footprints
Gianluca Boo, Edith Darin, and our own LCDS Doug Leasure together with colleagues from WorldPop, Columbia University, UCLA, and the DRC...
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Melinda Mills
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Control over the built environment allows communities to reduce crime
Credit: Mitchell Henderson (pexel.com) Why is crime concentrated in particular urban neighbourhoods? One tradition in criminology finds...
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Melinda Mills
- Jun 1
- 2 min
What was the impact of the London congestion charge on air pollution & school attendance?
In their recent paper published in Population and Environment, Risto Conte Keivabu and Nuffield College and LCDS affiliated postdoctoral...
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Melinda Mills
- Jun 1
- 3 min
Family Demographic Processes and In-Work Poverty: A Systematic Review
In a new study, published in Advances in Life Course Research, Nuffield College and LCDS DPhil student Antonino Polizzi, Emanuela...
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Melinda Mills
- Jun 1
- 1 min
What is the effect of mass education on women's autonomy in Latin America?
Photo credit: Lisa Summer (pexels.com) What is the effect of mass schooling on women's autonomy? In a new article in Demography, LCDS...
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Melinda Mills
- Jun 1
- 3 min
Wolfgang Lutz on the power of multi-dimensional demography & sustainable wellbeing
On June 1st, LCDS welcomed Professor Wolfgang Lutz, Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography, Austria on 'the power of...
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Melinda Mills
- May 31
- 1 min
Is automation good or bad news for social mobility?
What happens to families when industrial jobs are lost to automation? This asks a recent study by LCDS Research Fellow Per Engzell and...
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Melinda Mills
- May 31
- 1 min
Polygenic scores for Plasticity: A new tool for studying gene-environment interplay
New work recently published in the journal Demography, by our LCDS and Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology,...
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Melinda Mills
- May 31
- 1 min
Has income become more important in determining the length of life in Finland?
Figure above: Lifespan distributions of the bottom and top 20% income in Finland. S: Lifespan stratification; ∆e25: Difference in life...
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Melinda Mills
- May 31
- 1 min
Twin epidemics: Effects of HIV & systolic blood pressure on mortality risk in rural South Africa
Predicted probability of mortality by sex, HIV status and systolic blood pressure, Agincourt, South Africa, 2010-2018 LCDS Postdoc Andrea...
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Melinda Mills
- May 30
- 2 min
Do Black Lives Matter to Employers?
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/NvMqMxYu3gg Did Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd by a...
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Melinda Mills
- May 26
- 2 min
Jenn Dowd's Dear Pandemic chosen as WHO case study for innovative science communication
Congratulations to our own LCDS Deputy Director Jenn Dowd Editor in Chief and Founding Member of Dear Pandemic, for being chosen as a...
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