Social demography; mortality; fertility

Anson, J. & Luy, M. (Eds.), 2014, Mortality in an International Perspective, European Studies of Population, Vol. 18, Dordrecht: Springer (ISBN: ISBN 978-3-319-03028-9)

Anson, J., 2010, Beyond Material Explanations: Family Solidarity and Mortality, a Small Area-level Analysis, Population and Development Review, 36(1): 27 – 45

Anson, J., 2013, Surviving to be the oldest old – destiny or chance?, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 11: 71-85

Herm, A,, Anson, J. & Poulain, M., 2015. Living arrangements and marital status: a register-based study of survival of older adults in Belgium at the beginning of the 21st century, Ageing and Society, Available on CJO 2015 doi:10.1017/S0144686X15001002

Research Projects:
1.Local area life tables: To overcome size constraints on the estimation of local level life tables, we use a multilevel model to evaluate simultaneously life tables for all local areas within one national system, using local social conditions as covariates of the age-specific mortality rates.

2.Morphology of the life table: As mortality declines deaths the shape of the mortality curve changes as deaths are pushed back and become concentrated in later years of life. This project looks at patterns of change and, in particular, the conditions under which mortality is delayed in the mid-adult years of life.

3.The second mortality transition: We consider reasons for changes in the rate of ageing (slope of the log-mortality curve) with respect to mortality at younger ages and general social conditions. We focus, in particular, on reasons for the decline in the rate of ageing in the past half century.

4.Old age mortality: There is, in general, a consistent relation between mortality rates at different ages. Initial findings suggest that mortality rates at older ages (above 80) are fairly independent of rates at younger ages, and we investigate which social conditions affect rates at these older ages.