Research

Effects of epidemics and pandemics on life expectancy

In this research project, the researchers are looking at the short- and long-term effects of epidemics and pandemics on remaining life expectancy. Due to unexpected events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the current approach to estimating the impact of these factors has become less reliable. The results of this research will enable the development of new estimation methods that better account for the effects of life-threatening diseases.

The research results will be published on this page.

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Discussion papers

September 5, 2023

Decomposing Mortality Improvement Rates into Cause-Specific Contributions

September 2023 Authors: Frank van Berkum of the Research Centre for Longevity Risk and the Actuarial Sciences and Mathematical Finance Research Group at the University…

Journals

August 25, 2023

Estimating neighbourhood death rates using the random forest algorithm

Summary: Recent decades have seen increasing evidence for inequality in mortality for different socio-economic groups in various national populations. In this article, published by the…

Journals

August 21, 2023

Accounting for COVID-19-type shocks in mortality modeling: a comparative study

Summary: Mortality shocks such as the one induced by the COVID-19 pandemic have substantial impact on mortality models. We describe how to deal with them…