Section outline

  • Lecture 3: Mortality

    Guest Lecture: Magali Barbieri, UC Berkeley (title TBA)


    Location:  Mission Hall 1108

    • Session Slides:

    • Required Reading:

      1. - Barbieri, Magali, John R. Wilmoth, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Dana Glei,

        Domantas Jasilionis, Dmitri Jdanov, Carl Boe, Timothy Riffe, Pavel

        Grigoriev, and Celeste Winant. "Data Resource Profile: The Human

        Mortality Database (HMD)." International journal of epidemiology 44, no.

        5 (2015): 1549-1556.


        2. Ouellette, Nadine, Magali Barbieri, and John R. Wilmoth. "Period‐Based

        Mortality Change: Turning Points in Trends since 1950." Population and

        development review 40, no. 1 (2014): 77-106.


        3. Wilmoth, John R., Carl Boe, and Magali Barbieri. "Geographic

        Differences in Life Expectancy at Age 50 in the United States Compared

        with Other High-Income Countries", in National Academy of Sciences

        (Ed.), Understanding Divergent Trends in Longevity in High-Income

        Countries, (2010): 333-366.

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Datasets: