Postdoctoral Fellow – UC Berkeley Demography
Posted: 2/4/2023 (Employment)
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Demography, to work on the CenSoc Project. One-year appointment with possibility of one-year renewal. This appointment is contingent upon receipt of the Ph.D. prior to the start date. Start date is negotiable but as early as March 1st, 2023.
The CenSoc project is funded by NIA (R01 AG058940) to understand mortality. It consists of a set of linked data sets between the 1940 Full Count Census data with Social Security death records. This large-scale, public microdata data set is being used for advancing understanding of mortality disparities in the United States. The project uses record linkage techniques to match deaths aged 65-and-over observed from 1975 to 2009 back to individual, family, and neighborhood characteristics in the census. The scale and detail of CenSoc data allows researchers to make new discoveries in areas such as (a) mortality disparities by education, national origin, and race; (b) early life conditions and later-life mortality; and (c) geographic variation and the neighborhood determinants of mortality. These topics are of increasing importance in understanding increases in disparities in life expectancy in the United States. CenSoc research expands the ability to study old-age mortality disparities and the determinants of longevity. Please visit the website censoc.berkeley.edu for more information about the project.
Deadline: 02/15/2023
Location: University of California, Berkeley