Jiaxin Shi, a DPhil Student at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, has recently published a paper on whether individuals with lower socioeconomic status benefit less from pension programmes because of their higher mortality risks.
Life expectancy losses were unevenly shared in Chile during COVID-19, according to a new study published yesterday in the British Medical Journal, and conducted by Oxford’s Department of Statistics and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.
Gianluca Boo, Edith Darin, and our own LCDS Doug Leasure together with colleagues from WorldPop, Columbia University, UCLA, and the DRC Census Bureau used building footprints from high resolution satellite imagery to produce up-to-date population estimates broken down by age and sex across thousands of 100m grid squares—not much larger than a football pitch—throughout five provinces of the DRC.
