Demographer interested in Economics, Population Aging, Mortality and Demographic Methods. Professor and researcher at UFMG/Brazil - runner
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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz
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A great write-up on brand-new research I was involved in. We used a really different approach from the ones that we & many others have used previously to estimate how many Covid deaths there *really* were--almost 20% more than known. Our results broadly accord w others but add new demographic detail
Tracking a 2008 student cohort for 11 years, we found that by 2018, over 27% had dropped out, and age-grade discrepancy peaked at 33.1% in 2015. Only 44.5% reached the 3rd year of high school, showing how retention heavily conditions progress.
The article is here, and I'll have more to say in the coming days about how we came to this method of trying to answer, "How many Covid-19 deaths went uncounted in the US?"
Join our next Brown Bag Seminar on Wednesday, March 18 at 12pm PT.
@dennisfeehan.bsky.social, Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, will present, "What Do We Lose if We Lose the Demographic and Health Surveys? Quantifying Research Impact with Digital Trace Data.”
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
Thank you to everyone who submitted their #poweredbyIPUMS work from 2025 for our annual research awards competition.
🏆 We are thrilled to announce this year's winners! 🎉
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I co-authored "School Trajectories in Brazil (2008-2018)" with Estevão Vilela (preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...), derived from his Master's thesis.
We find that student´s trajectories are not homogeneous, public policies cannot be generic; need to be tailored to student vulnerabilities.
Next week! Seminar @ufmgbr.bsky.social
Last week, we received Vegard Skirbekk, Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the University of Oslo, at UFMG. Vegard delivered two lectures focusing on population ageing and health. He also interacted with students in Demography and Public Health.
Pictures: Lavinia Brandão - IEAT/UFMG
great paper by Silvio C. Patricio
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
His study shows no evidence that the individual rate of aging has changed. Instead, it remains stable, suggesting that gains in life expectancy are more consistent with a later onset of senescence than with a slowing of its tempo.
From March 22nd to March 30th, @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social will be visiting Cedeplar and @ufmgbr.bsky.social
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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Berkeley Population Sciences
Human aging is marked by a steady rise in the risk of dying with age–a process demographers call senescence. Over the past century, life expectancy...
The COVID-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. apnews.com/article/covi...
A new study says the early U.S. COVID-19 death toll is much higher than official counts, and that there were disparities in which deaths were missing from those tallies.
