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.
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Pilot Projects
2023. Lisa Barcellos. Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure on the Epigenome and Health in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort.
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity, Biology, Genetics and Demography of Aging
2023. Michael Walker. Unconditional cash transfers and aging: experimental evidence from Kenya.
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity, Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia
2023. Rebecca Staiger. How does chronic condition care received in Medicaid affect health utilization and outcomes in Medicare?.
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care
2023. Rosemarie de la Rosa. Longitudinal analysis of childhood adversity and epigenetic aging.
Priority Research Areas: Biology, Genetics and Demography of Aging
2022. Dennis Feehan, UC Berkeley. Social network methods for estimating adult death rates in the absence of vital registration.
Priority Research Areas: Mortality Measurements in LMIC
2022. Joseph Shapiro, UC Berkeley. Drinking Water Quality, the Health of Older Americans, and Inequality.
Priority Research Areas: Health Trends and Disparities
2022. Ming Hsu, UC Berkeley. Vulnerability of Older individuals To Financial Fraud: Insights from Behavioral and Neural Evidence.
Priority Research Areas: Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia
2022. Ned Augenblick, UC Berkeley. Identifying the Effects of Administrative Complexity on Healthcare Provision and Health Outcomes.
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care
2022. Sarah Reynolds, UC Berkeley. Grandparent and grandchild coresidency: Prevalence and impact on grandparents'health, cognitions & well-being.
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity, Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia
2022. Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford. Spatial and Temporal Variation in Age at Death in the US.
Priority Research Areas: Mortality Measurements
2021. Amanda Brewster, UC Berkeley. Is Home and Community-Based Services access and quality better when providers have a greater social service focus.
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care
2021. William H. Dow, UC Berkeley. Long-Term Effects of Social Insurance on Adult Mortality in Mexico.
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care
2021. David Levine, UC Berkeley. Can theories of social identity and of nudges increase uptake of a vaccine against COVID-19? .
Priority Research Areas: Effects of Interventions on Population Health
2021. Magali Barbieri, UC Berkeley. The Mortality Burden of COVID-19 in the U.S. – A Case Study in Minnesota.
Priority Research Areas: Health Trends and Disparities
2021. Ben Handel, UC Berkeley. Can Tele-Medicine Increase Access and Make Health Care Delivery More Accessible? Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Chronic Disease Treatment and Outcomes.
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity, Effects of Interventions on Population Health
2021. Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley. Using mHealth Technology to Improve Retention in Care and Health of Chronic Patients .
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care
2020. Gretchen Donehower, UC Berkeley. Population Aging and the demand for paid and unpaid care: the US in international context.
Dates subject to NOA
2020. Jim Carey, UC Davis. 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, UC Berkeley . A Pilot Trial of Gamification for Enhancing a Smoking Cessation App.
At UCSF Dates subject to NOA
2020. Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley. How Excess Sugar Consumption Early in Life Affects Health in Adulthood.
Dates subject to NOA
2019. Andres Cardenas, UC Berkeley. Resilient Epigenomes; DNA Methylation Signatures of "Blue-Zone" Residents.
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity
2019. Hilary Hoynes. The Effects of Employment Incentives and Cash Transfers on Adult Mortality: Evidence from the Long Run Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments.
Priority Research Areas: Effects of Interventions on Population Health
2019. Ming Hsu. Memory based choices and its neural substrates.
Priority Research Areas: Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia
2018. Daniel Schneider. Job loss and health among U.S. manufacturers: using Facebook to augment existing data sources.
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity
2018. Ellen Eisen. Deaths of Despair and Job Loss in a Cohort of Autoworkers.
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity
2018. James Carey. Lineage and Lifespan: Use of Historical Familiy Databases to Analyze the Relationships of Family and Wealth to Longevity.
Priority Research Areas: Population, Economic and Health Forecasting
2018. Leora Lawton. Assessing Relationships Between Social Networks and Well-being.
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity
2018. Stephanie Child. Use of Redirected Inbound Call Sampling for Increasing Access to Research Participation among Black Americans.
Priority Research Areas: Health Trends and Disparities
2017. Dow, William H. Health and Aging in Cuba.
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity
2017. Jagust, William. The Influence of Aging on Neural Systems Mediating Behavioral Responses to Financial Rewards.
Priority Research Areas: Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia
2017. Joshua Goldstein, UC Berkeley. Towards a new, public data set for studying mortality inequality: Matching the 1940 U.S. Census with Social Security death records, 1963-2011.
Priority Research Areas: Health Trends and Disparities
2017. Shachar Kariv, UC Berkeley. Predicting Elderly Health Behaviors and Outcomes Using Decision-making Quality and Risk Attitudes.
Priority Research Areas: Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia
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.
Center-Supported Publications
County-level socio-economic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the USA
Connecting Fathers: Fathers' Impact on Adult Children's Social Networks
Age-related variability in decision-making: Insights from neurochemistry
Retrieval-constrained valuation: Toward prediction of open-ended decisions
On Negative Heritability and Negative Estimates of Heritability
Demographic perspectives on the mortality of COVID-19 and other epidemics
County-level socio-economic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the USA
Educational gradient in social network changes at disease diagnosis
The US Midlife Mortality Crisis Continues: Excess Cause-Specific Mortality During 2020
Geographically-targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable than age-based thresholds alone
Socioeconomic Disparities Do Not Explain the U.S. International Disadvantage in Mortality
They Drive Me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being
Vaccinating the oldest against COVID-19 saves both the most lives and most years of life
A Flexible Bayesian Model for Estimating Subnational Mortality
Life course transitions and changes in network ties among younger and older adults
The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers
Network Support and Negative Life Events Associated With Chronic Cardiometabolic Disease Outcomes
A Hierarchical Bayesian Implementation of the Experience-Weighted Attraction Model
Different Discussion Partners and Their Effect on Depression among Older Adults
Cognitive neuroscience of honesty and deception: A signaling framework
Race/Ethnic Differences, Skin Tone, and Memory Among Older Latinos in the United States
Statistical properties of simple random-effects models for genetic heritability
As the Wind Blows: The Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Mortality
Cuba's cardiovascular risk factors: International comparison of levels and education gradients
THE US MIDLIFE MORTALITY CRISIS CONTINUES: EXCESS CAUSE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY DURING 2020
Suicide, overdose and worker exit in a cohort of Michigan autoworkers
Neural Mechanisms of Updating under Reducible and Irreducible Uncertainty
Augmenting Frontal Dopamine Tone Enhances Maintenance over Gating Processes in Working Memory
The short-term mortality fluctuation data series, monitoring mortality shocks across time and space
Difficult People: Who Is Perceived to Be Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There?
Personal networks and associations with psychological distress among young and older adults
Distinctive egg-laying patterns in terminal versus non-terminal periods in three fruit fly species
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality
Genotyping Oral Commensal Bacteria to Predict Social Contact and Structure
Neuroeconomic measures of social decision-making across the lifespan
The age-specific force of natural selection and biodemographic walls of death
Artificial diet alters activity and rest patterns in the olive fruit fly
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