A5018053342- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Global Health Care Issues
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Global Maternal and Child Health
University of Oxford
2016-2025
University of Groningen
2012-2025
Nuffield Health
2023-2025
University Medical Center Groningen
2021-2025
Leverhulme Trust
2019-2024
New College
2018-2023
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
2022
Erasmus University Rotterdam
2021
Oxford Policy Management
2021
Austrian Academy of Sciences
2021
Governments around the world must rapidly mobilize and make difficult policy decisions to mitigate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Because deaths have been concentrated at older ages, we highlight important role of demography, particularly, how age structure a population may help explain differences in fatality rates across countries transmission unfolds. We examine thus far Italy South Korea illustrate pandemic could unfold populations with similar sizes but different...
As COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out across the world, there growing concerns about roles that trust, belief in conspiracy theories, and spread of misinformation through social media play impacting vaccine hesitancy. We use a nationally representative survey 1476 adults UK between 12 18 December 2020, along with 5 focus groups conducted during same period. Trust is core predictor, distrust general mistrust government raising health institutions experts perceived personal threat vital,...
Variations in the age patterns and magnitudes of excess deaths, as well differences population sizes structures, make cross-national comparisons cumulative mortality impacts COVID-19 pandemic challenging. Life expectancy is a widely used indicator that provides clear cross-nationally comparable picture population-level on mortality.
Estimates from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of unrelated individuals capture effects inherited variation (direct effects), demography (population stratification, assortative mating) and relatives (indirect genetic effects). Family-based GWAS designs can control for demographic indirect effects, but large-scale family datasets have been lacking. We combined data 178,086 siblings 19 cohorts to generate population (between-family) within-sibship (within-family) estimates 25...
Deaths directly linked to COVID-19 infection may be misclassified, and the pandemic have indirectly affected other causes of death. To overcome these measurement challenges, we estimate impact on mortality, life expectancy lifespan inequality from week 10 2020, when first death was registered, 47 ending 20 November 2020 in England Wales through an analysis excess mortality. We estimated age sex-specific mortality risk deaths above a baseline adjusted for seasonality with systematic...
Abstract Variations in the age patterns and magnitudes of excess deaths, as well differences population sizes structures make cross-national comparisons cumulative mortality impacts COVID-19 pandemic challenging. Life expectancy is a widely-used indicator that provides clear cross-nationally comparable picture population-level on mortality. tables by sex were calculated for 29 countries, including most European Chile, USA 2015-2020. at birth 60 2020 contextualised against recent trends...
Abstract As COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out across the world, there growing concerns about role that trust, belief in conspiracy theories and spread of misinformation through social media impact vaccine hesitancy. We use a nationally representative survey 1,476 adults UK between December 12 to 18, 2020 five focus groups conducted same period. Trust is core predictor, with distrust general mistrust government raising health institutions experts perceived personal threat vital, revealing...
Mandatory COVID-19 certification (showing vaccination, recent negative test, or proof of recovery) has been introduced in some countries. We aimed to investigate the effect on vaccine uptake.We designed a synthetic control model comparing six countries (Denmark, Israel, Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland) that (April-August, 2021), with 19 Using daily data cases, deaths, vaccinations, country-specific information, we produced counterfactual trend estimating what might have happened...
Fertility levels have fallen drastically in most industrialized countries. Diverse theoretical and empirical frameworks had difficulty explaining these unprecedented low of fertility. More recently, however, attention has turned from cla
The enduring importance and utility of comparative research in sociology are as old the discipline itself. Although flourishes within this discipline, methodological problems persist. After defining research, article outlines some its central problems, including: (1) case selection, unit, level scale analysis; (2) construct equivalence; (3) variable or orientation; (4) causality. discussion finishes with a brief introduction critical innovative articles special issue that not only address...
Recent years have seen the birth of sociogenomics via infusion molecular genetic data. We chronicle history genetics, focusing particularly on post-2005 genome-wide association studies, post-2015 big data era, and emergence polygenic scores. argue that understanding scores, including their correlations with each other, causation, underlying biological architecture, is vital. show how genetics can be introduced to understand a myriad topics such as fertility, educational attainment,...
Abstract Governments around the world must rapidly mobilize and make difficult policy decisions to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic. Because deaths have been concentrated at older ages, we highlight important role of demography, particularly how age structure a population may help explain differences in fatality rates across countries transmission unfolds. We examine thus far Italy South Korea illustrate pandemic could unfold populations with similar sizes but different structures, showing...