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.

Check out our work on pension claiming in the U.S.

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...

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!