Cosmo Strozza

SDU's Population Studies master's students had a great visit to the Danish National Archives yesterday as part of their Applied Demography course this week! @paola.vazquez.dk @cosmostrozza.bsky.social @democraftsdu.bsky.social

Don't miss the opportunity to join CPop and work with an amazing supervisor @mpbergeron.bsky.social l 🙌

On top of that, Denmark offers exceptional PhD conditions: competitive salary, comprehensive healthcare, and strong work-life balance.

PhD scholarship for research project on lifespan inequalities across social determinants of health The Interdisciplinary Centre on population Dynamics (CPop) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for a fully funded three year PhD position within a Danish Research Council ...

PhD opportunity!
CPop is opening a fully funded three year PhD position on lifespan inequalities.
Apply here 👇
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New paper on dementia diagnosis trends in Denmark out in SSM's special issue on "Understanding cognitive ageing: individuals, institutions, and inequalities" 🥳

We examined nearly four decades of data (1986-2023) to understand how age, period, and birth cohort shape dementia diagnosis patterns 🔎

Slowing longevity gains and diverse health trends mean healthcare systems must prepare for new challenges. Understanding how ageing and time-to-death determine healthcare costs is critical for future planning. It was a privilege to collaborate on this important update with fantastic colleagues 🙌

Yesterday our team gathered to reflect on 3.5 years of work together. It was wonderful to see what we've produced laid out and synthesized, and I'm grateful to have led this project. Highlights of our research coming soon. @cosmostrozza.bsky.social @oskardj.bsky.social @sandrsalek.bsky.social

Honoured to have received the European Demographer Award at the Berlin Demography Days 🏆
Thank you @populationeu.bsky.social for the wonderful ceremony, and to my family for being there to share this special moment with me 🥰
Congratulations again to @juliahellstrand.bsky.social and Ewa Beaujouan 👏

Socioeconomic inequalities in survival to retirement age in Denmark: a register-based analysis - Genus Around the world, people are increasingly living to older ages. This challenges the sustainability of the pension systems. In Denmark, statutory retirement age increases gradually to account for changes in life expectancy. However, the chances of reaching retirement age are not equal across the Danish population, and raising the retirement age could disproportionally impact those of lower socioeconomic status. In this study, we investigated socioeconomic inequalities in mortality before reaching retirement age in Denmark and how a higher retirement age would affect survival to retirement across socioeconomic groups. We used Danish registry data over a 30-year period, focusing on 19 consecutive birth cohorts: 1936–1954. We assessed the probability of dying between age 50 and retirement age, set at 65 and 67, across socioeconomic groups using three dimensions of socioeconomic status: education, occupation, and income. We found that the gap in survival has widened over time between the lowest and highest socioeconomic groups for each indicator, driven mostly by limited or stagnant improvements in the lowest socioeconomic groups. Our findings show that raising the retirement age from 65 to 67 disproportionately affects individuals from lower socioeconomic groups, especially men, in absolute terms. Pension reforms that link retirement age to life expectancy are sharpening inequalities, as lower-SES groups are not only facing higher early mortality, but also experience much slower improvements in mortality.

[Paper alert] Mortality decreases for highest socioeconomic groups in Denmark 🇩🇰 while stagnating for lowest ones | Survival to retirement | Danish registry | @cosmostrozza.bsky.social in @genus.bsky.social with @svigezzi.bsky.social @juliacalla.bsky.social @sandrsalek.bsky.social @ikashnitsky.phd

📢 Papers from #REVES2026 with a focus on new methods for analyzing healthy life expectancy and inequalities will be great candidates for the @genus.bsky.social Healthy Life Expectancy collection by @cosmostrozza.bsky.social & @timriffe1.bsky.social !
🔗 tinyurl.com/HLEgenus
📌01/06/2026
#demography

‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️
Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
📅3-7 November 2025
💻Online 💸no tuition fee
📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025

@imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social

📣 Great news from our community!

👉 @cosmostrozza.bsky.social has been awarded the European Demographer Award 2025 for a promising & upcoming researcher! 🚀

🏆 The prize, promoted by Population Europe, will be presented at the Berlin Demography Days. 👏

🔗 population-europe.eu/network/news...

Best of luck in your new position 👏

Have a look at the call for papers 👀

Health demographers 📣
Calling for submissions to our w. @timriffe1.bsky.social
Healthy Life Expectancy methodology collection on @genus.bsky.social! We're seeking innovative approaches to statistical modelling and empirical analysis of health inequalities 📈
📆 Submission deadline: 01/06/26
🔗 Link 👇

link.springer.com/collections/...

How fun! Our CPop-Econ team joined the DHL relay alongside many @sdu.dk colleagues 🏃‍♀️🏃

Great job team @juliacalla.bsky.social Leanne @mpbergeron.bsky.social and Silvia 🙌

Thanks to the organizers and volunteers 👏

Congratulations again 👏 See you in Berlin!

Deeply honoured and genuinely surprised to receive this year’s European Demographer Award alongside @juliahellstrand.bsky.social and @fertdem.bsky.social 🥳Congratulations to all awardees 👏
Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

🇩🇰 Denmark is proud about its low inequality

(and rightfully so! few countries do better)

Yet, in current Danish society, the richest quarter of males have a 5% risk of not surviving in the age period 50-65; for the poorest quarter of males this figure is… 22%🤯

And this gap is increasing 🤨

A major finding is that across 19 cohorts of retirees, consistently almost 1 in 4 low-income men do not survive between age 50 and retirement while high-income men's survival improved dramatically from 1 in 10 to 1 in 20 as shown in the figure below (panel c) 👀

Socioeconomic inequalities in survival to retirement age in Denmark: a register-based analysis - Genus Around the world, people are increasingly living to older ages. This challenges the sustainability of the pension systems. In Denmark, statutory retirement age increases gradually to account for chang...

Mortality stagnates for Denmark's lowest socioeconomic groups while decreasing for highest, driving widening survival gaps to retirement ‼️

Check out our newest publication in @genus.bsky.social with @svigezzi.bsky.social @juliacalla.bsky.social @sandrsalek.bsky.social @ikashnitsky.phd

Socioeconomic inequalities in survival to retirement age in Denmark: a register-based analysis - Genus Around the world, people are increasingly living to older ages. This challenges the sustainability of the pension systems. In Denmark, statutory retirement age increases gradually to account for chang...

Survival inequalities expand in DK by socioeconomic group. New paper by @cosmostrozza.bsky.social, @svigezzi.bsky.social, @juliacalla.bsky.social, @sandrsalek.bsky.social, @ikashnitsky.phd, find that almost 1/4 poor men vs 1/20 rich men die pre-retirement.

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Coherent forecasting model for health and mortality that works with both prevalence AND incidence methodologies for healthy life expectancy 👀

Co-authored with @mpbergeron.bsky.social #ViolettaSimonacci #JimOeppen

Nordic Demographic Symposium 2025 is launching in a week! Look at this exciting program 😍
demografi.dk/dokumenter/N...

NDS'25 got 188 submissions

We were elated to see A LOT of submissions to NDS'25. On the plus side, the conference will be packed with amazing #demography talks. On the downside, we had a hard time selecting the talks that out small&cozy conference can accommodate. Notices of acceptance will be sent out early next week 🙌

Har vi råd til, at danskerne bliver ældre og ældre?

Lyt med, når forskerne udlægger de økonomiske konsekvenser fra deres nye analyse, og få svaret på, om vi kan håndtere den stigende andel +80-årige uden at sprænge sundhedsbudgetterne:

rockwoolfonden.dk/udgivelser/s...

Dear demographers, the call for papers for the Nordic Demographic Symposium, hosted by @demografi.dk, closes on Monday. Send us your abstracts here: event.sdu.dk/nds2025demog... #demography #youpayforyourowndrinks

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open!

This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography.

Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon).
More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

L'appel à candidatures pour l’École doctorale européenne de démographie (EDSD) 2025-2026 est ouvert !

Ce programme international vise à fournir aux étudiants une formation de haut niveau en démographie.

Date limite de candidature : 25 mars 2025 à 12h (midi).
Infos : eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

🚨 final call 🚨

to your most welcome and cozy event of this year

Nordic Demographic Symposium is happening on 10-12 June in Middelfart 🇩🇰

Please apply before 10 February! Just one-pager abstract needed 🤝

event.sdu.dk/nds2025demog...