Publications

Finkelstein, M. and Vaupel, J. (2015). On random age and remaining lifetime for populations of items: M. FINKELSTEIN AND J. VAUPEL. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 31(5):681–689. doi:10.1002/asmb.2073.

Lipsi, R.M., Caselli, G., Pozzi, L., Baggio, G., Carru, C., Franceschi, C., Vaupel, J.W., and Deiana, L. (2015). Demographic characteristics of Sardinian centenarian genealogies: Preliminary results of the AKeA2 study. Demographic Research 32:1049–1064. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2015.32.37.

Missov, T.I., Lenart, A., Nemeth, L., Canudas-Romo, V., and Vaupel, J.W. (2015). The Gompertz force of mortality in terms of the modal age at death. Demographic Research 32:1031–1048. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2015.32.36.

Oksuzyan, A., Shkolnikova, M., Vaupel, J.W., Christensen, K., and Shkolnikov, V.M. (2015). Sex Differences in Biological Markers of Health in the Study of Stress, Aging and Health in Russia. PLOS ONE 10(6):e0131691. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131691.

Pedersen, J.K., Skytthe, A., McGue, M., Honig, L.S., Franceschi, C., Kirkwood, T.B.L., Passarino, G., Slagboom, P.E., Vaupel, J.W., and Christensen, K. (2015). Low tobacco-related cancer incidence in offspring of long-lived siblings: a comparison with Danish national cancer registry data. Annals of Epidemiology 25(8):569-574.e3. doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2015.03.004.

Salguero‐Gómez, R., Jones, O.R., Archer, C.R., Buckley, Y.M., Che‐Castaldo, J., Caswell, H., Hodgson, D., Scheuerlein, A., Conde, D.A., Brinks, E., Buhr, H., Farack, C., Gottschalk, F., Hartmann, A., Henning, A., Hoppe, G., Römer, G., Runge, J., Ruoff, T., Wille, J., Zeh, S., Davison, R., Vieregg, D., Baudisch, A., Altwegg, R., Colchero, F., Dong, M., Kroon, H., Lebreton, J., Metcalf, C.J.E., Neel, M.M., Parker, I.M., Takada, T., Valverde, T., Vélez‐Espino, L.A., Wardle, G.M., Franco, M., and Vaupel, J.W. (2015). The compadre P lant M atrix D atabase: an open online repository for plant demography. Journal of Ecology 103(1):202–218. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12334.

Schaible, R., Scheuerlein, A., Dańko, M.J., Gampe, J., Martínez, D.E., and Vaupel, J.W. (2015). Constant mortality and fertility over age in Hydra. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(51):15701–15706. doi:10.1073/pnas.1521002112.

Vogt, T.C. and Vaupel, J.W. (2015). The importance of regional availability of health care for old age survival - Findings from German reunification. Population Health Metrics 13(1):26. doi:10.1186/s12963-015-0060-2.

Zeng, Y., Chen, H., Ni, T., Ruan, R., Feng, L., Nie, C., Cheng, L., Li, Y., Tao, W., Gu, J., Land, K.C., Yashin, A., Tan, Q., Yang, Z., Bolund, L., Yang, H., Hauser, E., Willcox, D.C., Willcox, B.J., Tian, X.-L., and Vaupel, J.W. (2015). GxE Interactions between FOXO Genotypes and Tea Drinking Are Significantly Associated with Cognitive Disability at Advanced Ages in China. The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 70(4):426–433. doi:10.1093/gerona/glu060.

Canudas-Romo, V. and Aburto, J.M. (2017). Biodemography of Aging Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity: Anatoli I. Yashin, Eric Stallard, Kenneth C. Land, Igor Akushevich, Liubov S. Arbeeva, Konstantin G. Arbeev, Irina Culminskaya, Mikhail Kovtun, Julia Kravchenko and Alexander M. Kulminski: Biodemography of Aging Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity, Springer, The Netherlands, 2016. European Journal of Population 33(4):611–613. doi:10.1007/s10680-017-9444-2.

Carey, J.R., Liedo, P., Xu, C., Wang, J.-L., Müller, H.-G., Su, Y.-R., and Vaupel, J.W. (2016). Diet Shapes Mortality Response to Trauma in Old Tephritid Fruit Flies. PLOS ONE 11(7):e0158468. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158468.

Christiansen, L., Lenart, A., Tan, Q., Vaupel, J.W., Aviv, A., McGue, M., and Christensen, K. (2016). DNA methylation age is associated with mortality in a longitudinal Danish twin study. Aging Cell 15(1):149–154. doi:10.1111/acel.12421.

Colchero, F., Rau, R., Jones, O.R., Barthold, J.A., Conde, D.A., Lenart, A., Nemeth, L., Scheuerlein, A., Schoeley, J., Torres, C., Zarulli, V., Altmann, J., Brockman, D.K., Bronikowski, A.M., Fedigan, L.M., Pusey, A.E., Stoinski, T.S., Strier, K.B., Baudisch, A., Alberts, S.C., and Vaupel, J.W. (2016). The emergence of longevous populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(48). doi:10.1073/pnas.1612191113.

Lenart, A. and Missov, T.I. (2016). Goodness-of-fit tests for the Gompertz distribution. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 45(10):2920–2937. doi:10.1080/03610926.2014.892323.

Lindahl-Jacobsen, R., Oeppen, J., Rizzi, S., Möller, S., Zarulli, V., Christensen, K., and Vaupel, J.W. (2016). Why did Danish women’s life expectancy stagnate? The influence of interwar generations’ smoking behaviour. European Journal of Epidemiology 31(12):1207–1211. doi:10.1007/s10654-016-0198-7.

Lindahl-Jacobsen, R., Rau, R., Jeune, B., Canudas-Romo, V., Lenart, A., Christensen, K., and Vaupel, J.W. (2016). Rise, stagnation, and rise of Danish women’s life expectancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(15):4015–4020. doi:10.1073/pnas.1602783113.

Medford, A. (2019). Biodemography of Aging Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity: Anatoli I. Yashin, Eric Stallard, Kenneth C. Land, Igor Akushevich, Liubov S. Arbeeva, Konstantin G. Arbeev, Irina Culminskaya, Mikhail Kovtun, Julia Kravchenko and Alexander M. Kulminski, Springer, The Netherlands, 2016. Canadian Studies in Population 46(1):73–75. doi:10.1007/s42650-019-00001-y.

Rizzi, S., Thinggaard, M., Engholm, G., Christensen, N., Johannesen, T.B., Vaupel, J.W., and Lindahl-Jacobsen, R. (2016). Comparison of non-parametric methods for ungrouping coarsely aggregated data. BMC Medical Research Methodology 16(1):59. doi:10.1186/s12874-016-0157-8.

Salguero‐Gómez, R., Jones, O.R., Archer, C.R., Bein, C., Buhr, H., Farack, C., Gottschalk, F., Hartmann, A., Henning, A., Hoppe, G., Römer, G., Ruoff, T., Sommer, V., Wille, J., Voigt, J., Zeh, S., Vieregg, D., Buckley, Y.M., Che‐Castaldo, J., Hodgson, D., Scheuerlein, A., Caswell, H., and Vaupel, J.W. (2016). COMADRE : a global data base of animal demography. Journal of Animal Ecology 85(2):371–384. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12482.

Vaupel, J.W. (2016). La longévité : passé, présent et futur: Revue d’économie financière n° 122(2):41–56. doi:10.3917/ecofi.122.0041.

Zeng, Y., Nie, C., Min, J., Liu, Xiaomin, Li, M., Chen, H., Xu, Hanshi, Wang, M., Ni, T., Li, Y., Yan, H., Zhang, J.-P., Song, C., Chi, L.-Q., Wang, H.-M., Dong, J., Zheng, G.-Y., Lin, L., Qian, F., Qi, Y., Liu, Xiao, Cao, H., Wang, Yinghao, Zhang, L., Li, Z., Zhou, Y., Wang, Yan, Lu, J., Li, J., Qi, M., Bolund, L., Yashin, A., Land, K.C., Gregory, S., Yang, Z., Gottschalk, W., Tao, W., Wang, Jian, Wang, Jun, Xu, X., Bae, H., Nygaard, M., Christiansen, L., Christensen, K., Franceschi, C., Lutz, M.W., Gu, J., Tan, Q., Perls, T., Sebastiani, P., Deelen, J., Slagboom, E., Hauser, E., Xu, Huji, Tian, X.-L., Yang, H., and Vaupel, J.W. (2016). Novel loci and pathways significantly associated with longevity. Scientific Reports 6(1):21243. doi:10.1038/srep21243.

Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., Canudas-Romo, V., Oeppen, J., and Vaupel, J.W. (2017). Coherent forecasts of mortality with compositional data analysis. Demographic Research 37:527–566. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.17.

Canudas-Romo, V. and Aburto, J.M. (2017). Biodemography of Aging Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity: Anatoli I. Yashin, Eric Stallard, Kenneth C. Land, Igor Akushevich, Liubov S. Arbeeva, Konstantin G. Arbeev, Irina Culminskaya, Mikhail Kovtun, Julia Kravchenko and Alexander M. Kulminski: Biodemography of Aging Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity, Springer, The Netherlands, 2016. European Journal of Population 33(4):611–613. doi:10.1007/s10680-017-9444-2.

Canudas-Romo, V., Aburto, J.M., García-Guerrero, V.M., and Beltrán-Sánchez, H. (2017). Mexico’s epidemic of violence and its public health significance on average length of life. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 71(2):188–193. doi:10.1136/jech-2015-207015.

Colchero, F., Rau, R., Scheuerlein, A., Schwentker, B., and Vaupel, J.W. (2017). Sterbealter gleichen sich an. . doi:10.17617/1.3S.

Jones, O.R. and Vaupel, J.W. (2017). Senescence is not inevitable. Biogerontology 18(6):965–971. doi:10.1007/s10522-017-9727-3.

Lenart, A. and Vaupel, J.W. (2017). Questionable evidence for a limit to human lifespan. Nature 546(7660):E13–E14. doi:10.1038/nature22790.

Medford, A. (2017). Best-practice life expectancy: An extreme value approach. Demographic Research 36:989–1014. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.34.

Modig, K., Andersson, T., Vaupel, J., Rau, R., and Ahlbom, A. (2017). How long do centenarians survive? Life expectancy and maximum lifespan. Journal of Internal Medicine 282(2):156–163. doi:10.1111/joim.12627.

Oksuzyan, A., Demakakos, P., Shkolnikova, M., Thinggaard, M., Vaupel, J.W., Christensen, K., and Shkolnikov, V.M. (2017). Handgrip strength and its prognostic value for mortality in Moscow, Denmark, and England. PLOS ONE 12(9):e0182684. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0182684.

Rasmussen, S.H., Andersen-Ranberg, K., Thinggaard, M., Jeune, B., Skytthe, A., Christiansen, L., Vaupel, J.W., McGue, M., and Christensen, K. (2017). Cohort Profile: The 1895, 1905, 1910 and 1915 Danish Birth Cohort Studies - secular trends in the health and functioning of the very old. International Journal of Epidemiology 46(6):1746–1746j. doi:10.1093/ije/dyx053.

Rizzi, S. (2017). Age-specific distributions from coarse-count data: An epidemiological and demographic application of a penalized composite link model. University of Southern Denmark. https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/age-specific-distributions-from-coarse-count-data-an-epidemiologi.

Zeng, Y., Feng, Q., Gu, D., and Vaupel, J.W. (2017). Demographics, phenotypic health characteristics and genetic analysis of centenarians in China. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development 165:86–97. doi:10.1016/j.mad.2016.12.010.

Zeng, Y., Feng, Q., Hesketh, T., Christensen, K., and Vaupel, J.W. (2017). Survival, disabilities in activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning among the oldest-old in China: a cohort study. The Lancet 389(10079):1619–1629. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30548-2.

Aburto, J.M. and van Raalte, A. (2018). Lifespan Dispersion in Times of Life Expectancy Fluctuation: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe. Demography 55(6):2071–2096. doi:10.1007/s13524-018-0729-9.

Aburto, J.M., Wensink, M., van Raalte, A., and Lindahl-Jacobsen, R. (2018). Potential gains in life expectancy by reducing inequality of lifespans in Denmark: an international comparison and cause-of-death analysis. BMC Public Health 18(1):831. doi:10.1186/s12889-018-5730-0.

Barbi, E., Lagona, F., Marsili, M., Vaupel, J.W., and Wachter, K.W. (2018a). Response to Comment on “The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers”. Science 362(6412):eaav3229. doi:10.1126/science.aav3229.

Barbi, E., Lagona, F., Marsili, M., Vaupel, J.W., and Wachter, K.W. (2018b). The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers. Science 360(6396):1459–1461. doi:10.1126/science.aat3119.

Barthold Jones, J.A., Lenart, A., and Baudisch, A. (2018). Complexity of the relationship between life expectancy and overlap of lifespans. PLOS ONE 13(7):e0197985. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197985.

Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., Canudas-Romo, V., Pascariu, M., and Lindahl-Jacobsen, R. (2018). Modeling and forecasting sex differences in mortality: a sex-ratio approach. Genus 74(1):20. doi:10.1186/s41118-018-0044-8.

Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., Simonacci, V., Oeppen, J., and Gallo, M. (2018). Coherent Modeling and Forecasting of Mortality Patterns for Subpopulations Using Multiway Analysis of Compositions: An Application to Canadian Provinces and Territories. North American Actuarial Journal 22(1):92–118. doi:10.1080/10920277.2017.1377620.

D. Pascariu, M., J. Dańko, M., Schöley, J., and Rizzi, S. (2018). ungroup: An R package for efficient estimation of smooth distributions from coarsely binned data. Journal of Open Source Software 3(29):937. doi:10.21105/joss.00937.

Pascariu, M.D., Canudas-Romo, V., and Vaupel, J.W. (2018). The double-gap life expectancy forecasting model. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 78:339–350. doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2017.09.011.

Rau, R., Bohk-Ewald, C., Muszyńska, M.M., and Vaupel, J.W. (2018). Surface Plots of Rates of Mortality Improvement. In: Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram. Cham: Springer International Publishing: 43–67. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64820-0_6.

Vaupel, J.W. and Villavicencio, F. (2018). Life lived and left: Estimating age-specific survival in stable populations with unknown ages. Demographic Research 39:991–1008. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.37.

Zarulli, V., Barthold Jones, J.A., Oksuzyan, A., Lindahl-Jacobsen, R., Christensen, K., and Vaupel, J.W. (2018). Women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(4). doi:10.1073/pnas.1701535115.

Zeng, Y., Nie, C., Min, J., Chen, H., Liu, Xiaomin, Ye, R., Chen, Z., Bai, C., Xie, E., Yin, Z., Lv, Y., Lu, J., Li, J., Ni, T., Bolund, L., Land, K.C., Yashin, A., O’Rand, A.M., Sun, L., Yang, Z., Tao, W., Gurinovich, A., Franceschi, C., Xie, J., Gu, J., Hou, Y., Liu, Xiao, Xu, X., Robine, J.-M., Deelen, J., Sebastiani, P., Slagboom, E., Perls, T., Hauser, E., Gottschalk, W., Tan, Q., Christensen, K., Shi, X., Lutz, M., Tian, X.-L., Yang, H., and Vaupel, J. (2018). Sex Differences in Genetic Associations With Longevity. JAMA Network Open 1(4):e181670. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.1670.

Aburto, J.M., Alvarez-Martínez, J.-A., Villavicencio, F., and Vaupel, J.W. (2019). The threshold age of the lifetable entropy. Demographic Research 41:83–102. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.4.

Basellini, U. and Camarda, C.G. (2019). Modelling and forecasting adult age-at-death distributions. Population Studies 73(1):119–138. doi:10.1080/00324728.2018.1545918.

Bengtsson, T., Keilman, N., Alho, J.M., Christensen, K., Palmer, E., and Vaupel, J.W. (2019). Introduction. In: Bengtsson, T. and Keilman, N. (eds.). Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting. Cham: Springer International Publishing: 1–19. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05075-7_1.

Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., Kjærgaard, S., Oeppen, J., and Vaupel, J.W. (2019). The impact of the choice of life table statistics when forecasting mortality. Demographic Research 41:1235–1268. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.43.

Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., Oeppen, J., Holm, N.V., Nielsen, H.M., Lindahl-Jacobsen, R., and Wensink, M.J. (2019). Understanding Differences in Cancer Survival between Populations: A New Approach and Application to Breast Cancer Survival Differentials between Danish Regions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(17):3093. doi:10.3390/ijerph16173093.

Canudas-Romo, V. and Aburto, J.M. (2019). Youth lost to homicides: disparities in survival in Latin America and the Caribbean. BMJ Global Health 4(2):e001275. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001275.

Canudas-Romo, V., Booth, H., and Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P. (2019). Minimum Death Rates and Maximum Life Expectancy: The Role of Concordant Ages. North American Actuarial Journal 23(3):322–334. doi:10.1080/10920277.2018.1519448.

Deelen, J., Evans, D.S., Arking, D.E., Tesi, N., Nygaard, M., Liu, X., Wojczynski, M.K., Biggs, M.L., van der Spek, A., Atzmon, G., Ware, E.B., Sarnowski, C., Smith, A.V., Seppälä, I., Cordell, H.J., Dose, J., Amin, N., Arnold, A.M., Ayers, K.L., Barzilai, N., Becker, E.J., Beekman, M., Blanché, H., Christensen, K., Christiansen, L., Collerton, J.C., Cubaynes, S., Cummings, S.R., Davies, K., Debrabant, B., Deleuze, J.-F., Duncan, R., Faul, J.D., Franceschi, C., Galan, P., Gudnason, V., Harris, T.B., Huisman, M., Hurme, M.A., Jagger, C., Jansen, I., Jylhä, M., Kähönen, M., Karasik, D., Kardia, S.L.R., Kingston, A., Kirkwood, T.B.L., Launer, L.J., Lehtimäki, T., Lieb, W., Lyytikäinen, L.-P., Martin-Ruiz, C., Min, J., Nebel, A., Newman, A.B., Nie, C., Nohr, E.A., Orwoll, E.S., Perls, T.T., Province, M.A., Psaty, B.M., Raitakari, O.T., Reinders, M.J.T., Robine, J.-M., Rotter, J.I., Sebastiani, P., Smith, J., Sørensen, T.I.A., Taylor, K.D., Uitterlinden, A.G., van der Flier, W., van der Lee, S.J., van Duijn, C.M., van Heemst, D., Vaupel, J.W., Weir, D., Ye, K., Zeng, Y., Zheng, W., Holstege, H., Kiel, D.P., Lunetta, K.L., Slagboom, P.E., and Murabito, J.M. (2019). A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes. Nature Communications 10(1):3669. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11558-2.

Kjærgaard, S., Ergemen, Y.E., Kallestrup‐Lamb, M., Oeppen, J., and Lindahl‐Jacobsen, R. (2019). Forecasting causes of death by using compositional data analysis: the case of cancer deaths. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 68(5):1351–1370. doi:10.1111/rssc.12357.

Medford, A. (2019). Biodemography of Aging Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity: Anatoli I. Yashin, Eric Stallard, Kenneth C. Land, Igor Akushevich, Liubov S. Arbeeva, Konstantin G. Arbeev, Irina Culminskaya, Mikhail Kovtun, Julia Kravchenko and Alexander M. Kulminski, Springer, The Netherlands, 2016. Canadian Studies in Population 46(1):73–75. doi:10.1007/s42650-019-00001-y.

Medford, A., Christensen, K., Skytthe, A., and Vaupel, J.W. (2019). A Cohort Comparison of Lifespan After Age 100 in Denmark and Sweden: Are Only the Oldest Getting Older? Demography 56(2):665–677. doi:10.1007/s13524-018-0755-7.

Medford, A. and Vaupel, J.W. (2019a). An introduction to gevistic regression mortality models. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 2019(7):604–620. doi:10.1080/03461238.2019.1586756.

Medford, A. and Vaupel, J.W. (2019b). Human lifespan records are not remarkable but their durations are. PLOS ONE 14(3):e0212345. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0212345.

Rizzi, S., Halekoh, U., Thinggaard, M., Engholm, G., Christensen, N., Johannesen, T.B., and Lindahl-Jacobsen, R. (2019). How to estimate mortality trends from grouped vital statistics. International Journal of Epidemiology 48(2):571–582. doi:10.1093/ije/dyy183.

Steiner, U.K., Lenart, A., Ni, M., Chen, P., Song, X., Taddei, F., Vaupel, J.W., and Lindner, A.B. (2019). Two stochastic processes shape diverse senescence patterns in a single‐cell organism. Evolution 73(4):847–857. doi:10.1111/evo.13708.

Aburto, J.M., Villavicencio, F., Basellini, U., Kjærgaard, S., and Vaupel, J.W. (2020). Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(10):5250–5259. doi:10.1073/pnas.1915884117.

Alvarez, J.-A., Aburto, J.M., and Canudas-Romo, V. (2020). Latin American convergence and divergence towards the mortality profiles of developed countries. Population Studies 74(1):75–92. doi:10.1080/00324728.2019.1614651.

Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., Aburto, J.M., and van Raalte, A. (2020). Diversification in causes of death in low-mortality countries: emerging patterns and implications. BMJ Global Health 5(7):e002414. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002414.

Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., Alvarez, J.-A., Kashnitsky, I., and Zarulli, V. (2022). Probability of males to outlive females: an international comparison from 1751 to 2020. BMJ Open 12(8):e059964. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059964.

Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., Alvarez, J.-A., Kashnitsky, I., Zarulli, V., and Vaupel, J.W. (2020). Not All Females Outlive All Males: A New Perspective on Lifespan Inequalities between Sexes. SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/typws.

Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., Kjæ rgaard, S., Pascariu, M.D., Aburto, J.M., Alvarez, J.-A., Basellini, U., Rizzi, S., and Vaupel, J.W. (2020). Alternative Forecasts of Danish Life Expectancy. In: Mazzuco, S. and Keilman, N. (eds.). Developments in Demographic Forecasting. Cham: Springer International Publishing: 131–151. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-42472-5_7.

Christensen, K., Wojczynski, M.K., Pedersen, J.K., Larsen, L.A., Kløjgaard, S., Skytthe, A., McGue, M., Vaupel, J.W., and Province, M.A. (2020). Mechanisms underlying familial aggregation of exceptional health and survival: A three‐generation cohort study. Aging Cell 19(10). doi:10.1111/acel.13228.

Esteve, A., Permanyer, I., Boertien, D., and Vaupel, J.W. (2020). National age and coresidence patterns shape COVID-19 vulnerability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(28):16118–16120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2008764117.

Finkelstein, M. and Vaupel, J. (2020). On some stochastic properties of lives lived and left in non-stationary populations. Journal of Mathematical Biology 80(6):1845–1856. doi:10.1007/s00285-020-01481-2.

Kjærgaard, S., Ergemen, Y.E., Bergeron‐Boucher, M., Oeppen, J., and Kallestrup‐Lamb, M. (2020). Longevity forecasting by socio‐economic groups using compositional data analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 183(3):1167–1187. doi:10.1111/rssa.12555.

Medford, A. and Vaupel, J.W. (2020). Extremes are not normal: a reminder to demographers. Journal of Population Research 37(1):91–106. doi:10.1007/s12546-019-09231-y.

Vaupel, J.W., Bergeron-Boucher, M.-P., and Kashnitsky, I. (2020). Outsurvival as a Measure of the Inequality of Lifespans between Two Populations. SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/gsdkx.

Wensink, M., Alvarez, J.-A., Rizzi, S., Janssen, F., and Lindahl-Jacobsen, R. (2020). Progression of the smoking epidemic in high-income regions and its effects on male-female survival differences: a cohort-by-age analysis of 17 countries. BMC Public Health 20(1):39. doi:10.1186/s12889-020-8148-4.

Zarulli, V., Lindahl-Jacobsen, R., and Vaupel, J.W. (2020). Onset of the old-age gender gap in survival. Demographic Research 42:727–740. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2020.42.25.

Lenart, A., Aburto, J.M., Stockmarr, A., and Vaupel, J.W. (2021). The Human Longevity Record May Hold for Decades: Jeanne Calment’s Extraordinary Record Is Not Evidence for an Upper Limit to Human Lifespan. In: Maier, H., Jeune, B. and Vaupel, J. W. (eds.). Exceptional Lifespans. Cham: Springer International Publishing: 49–55. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49970-9_5.

Maier, H., Jeune, B., and Vaupel, J.W. (eds.) (2021). Exceptional Lifespans. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Demographic Research Monographs. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49970-9.

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