University of California, Berkeley
Research Themes
Biology, genetics and demography of aging; Consequences of U.S. and global aging; Health trends and disparities; Determinants of health, well-being and longevity; Population, economic and health forecasting; Behavioral economics.
News Archive and Newsletter
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Pilot Projects
2020. Dennis Feehan. Social network methods for estimating adult death rates in the absence of vital registration.
Dates subject to NOA
2020. Gretchen Donehower and Ron Lee. Population Aging and the demand for paid and unpaid care: the US in international context.
Dates subject to NOA
2020. Jim Carey. Recording Lifetime Activity, sleep patterns and reproduction to assess health span and predict time-to-death in the Mediterranean fruit fly.
At UC Davis Dates subject to NOA
2020. Justin White. A Pilot Trial of Gamification for Enhancing a Smoking Cessation App.
At UCSF Dates subject to NOA
2020. Paul Gertler. How Excess Sugar Consumption Early in Life Affects Health in Adulthood.
Dates subject to NOA
2019. Andres Cardenas. Resilient Epigenomes; DNA Methylation Signatures of "Blue-Zone" Residents.
2019. Hilary Hoynes. The Effects of Employment Incentives and Cash Transfers on Adult Mortality: Evidence from the Long Run Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments.
2019. Ming Hsu. Memory based choices and its neural substrates.
2018. Daniel Schneider. Job loss and health among U.S. manufacturers: using Facebook to augment existing data sources.
2018. Ellen Eisen. Deaths of Despair and Job Loss in a Cohort of Autoworkers.
2018. Gretchen Donehower. Integrating care, age, and health: a database for hypothesis testing and generation.
2018. James Carey. Lineage and Longevity.
2018. Leora Lawton. Assessing Relationships Between Social Networks and Well-being.
2018. Stephanie Child. Use of Redirected Inbound Call Sampling for Increasing Access to Research Participation among Black Americans.
2017. Dow, William H. Health and Aging in Cuba.
2017. Goldstein, Joshua. Towards a new, public data set for studying mortality inequality: Matching the 1940 U.S. Census with Social Security death records, 1963-2011.
2017. Jagust, William. The Influence of Aging on Neural Systems Mediating Behavioral Responses to Financial Rewards.
2017. Kariv, Shachar. Predicting Elderly Health Behaviors and Outcomes Using Decision-making Quality and Risk Attitudes.
2016. Jonathan Kolstad and Benjamin Handel. Preventive Care Utilization and Health Effects of Physician Incentives and Information.
2016. Joshua Goldstein. Hispanic Names, Acculturation, and Health.
2016. Magali Barbieri. Beyond the HMD: Developing a Mortality Database for the Rest of the World.
2016. Ronald Lee. The socioeconomic gradient in US Age-related transfers, health and mortality.
2015. Ming Hsu. Tracking Decision-Making Capacities Across the Lifespan: New experimental approaches.
2015. Alexander Gelber. The Effect of Social Security Benefits on Retirement: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts.
2015. Luis Rosero-Bixby. Population Aging and Socioeconomic Inequality in National Transfer Accounts.
2015. Ming Hsu. Game-Based Approaches to Measuring Decision-Making.
2015. Rucker Johnson. Interlocking Pathways of Mobility from Education to Adult Health.
2015. Stefano Dellavigna. Expert Forecasts: An Exploration on Health and Aging Experiments.
2015. James Carey. Aging in Wild Drosophila Fruitfly Populations.
2014. Emilio Zagheni. Empirical Bayes Approaches for Imperfect Human Mortality Data.
Original pilot award through June 30, 2015. Carryforward request will be made in July 2015
2014. William Dow. Epigenetic Characteristics of the High Longevity Nicoyan Population of Costa Rica.
2014. Kenneth Wachter. Alleles Affecting Longevity as a Genome-Wide Statistical Ensemble".
Original pilot award through June 30, 2015. Carryforward request will be made in July 2015
2014. Ulrike Malmendier. Experiences and Expectations.
Original pilot award through June 30, 2015. Carryforward request will be made in July 2015
2014. Don Moore. Overconfidence Over the Lifespan.
2014. Ming Hsu. Decline in monoamine turnover and its effects on decision-making in older adults.
2014. Shachar Kariv. The quality of the economic decision-making of the elderly: A Combined Survey and Field experiment.
2013. Ming Hsu. Decline in monoamine turnover and its effects on decision-making in older adults.
2011. Ken Wachter. Genetic Markers in the Health and Retirement Study: Risk Aversion, Height, and Health.
2010. Shachar Kariv. The Consistency and Heterogeneity of Individual Behavior under Uncertainty: A Combined Survey and Field Experiment.
2009. William Dow. Using Group Commitment To Promote Smoking Cessation in Thailand.
2009. Claude Fischer. Changes in Social Networks over the Later Life Cycle.
2007. Ivry, Richard. The benefit of sleep on reward-based learning of gains and losses in older adults.
2006. William Satariano. Environmental Correlates of Disability in an Older Population.
2006. William Dow. Costa Rican Census Mortality Linkage.
1999. John Wilmoth. Measurement of Mortality Differentials for the US.
1999. Ronald Lee. Intergenerational transfers among the Maya of Yucatan.
1998. Kenneth Wachter. Multivariate Indices of Short-term Risk of Death, Heart Failure, and Stroke in Elderly Persons.
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