Promotional graphic for a CPC-CG seminar. On the left, a woman wearing headphones works at a desk with a laptop showing an online meeting. On the right, blue branding panels list the speaker Sha Jiang from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the talk title about adverse mortality trends increasing bereavement in the United States. Logos for the Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations appear at the top, with event details stating an online seminar on 22 January, 15:00 to 16:00 GMT.

👩‍🏫 Join us on 22 Jan for our next #CPCCGWebinar

@shajiang.bsky.social from @mpidr.bsky.social will discuss how adverse #mortality resulted in a substantial increase in the number of individuals bereaved annually in the US

Register to join us online: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e... @bspsuk.bsky.social

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!