In “Mortality by Cause of Death in Brazil,” @fernandofernandes.bsky.social, @cassiomturra.bsky.social, G Franca & M Castro quantify “the different & paradoxical ways the COVID-19 pandemic indirectly impacted other causes of death…in 2020 & 2021.” @hsph.harvard.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

1/ I am excited to share our latest paper, "Demographic changes and Intergenerational reallocations in Brazil, 2003–2018", co-authored with Charles H. Correa and Carlos Enrique Carrasco-Gutierrez, now published in the Journal of the Economics of Ageing. 🧵👇

DemoDecomp R package is now updated on CRAN cran.r-project.org/web/packages..., now including lifetable response experiment function, which uses numerical derivatives in case you don't have your own sensitivity function.