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An innovative study published today in Science Advances finds that baseball and basketball players whose athletic skills peaked earlier or declined faster had significantly shorter lifespans. Those who peaked earlier had a 1.2 year shorter adult life expectancy whilst those who maintained athletic performance for longer had an 0.8 year higher life expectancy, according to the study by Dr Saul Newman from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

As this years’ Mental Health Awareness Week gets underway in the UK, researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science explore the role of genetics and sleep in understanding our mental health.

We are looking forward to Alison Buttenheim’s visit to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the end of this month. During her visit, Alison will give a talk on whether behavioural economics boosted COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, using evidence and insights from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic) and LMIC countries.

Join Jonas Schöley from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) for a Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Seminar on the phenomenon of the "birth hump", the excess risk of death associated with the transition of birth.

A recent study by Emeritus Professor of Family Demography John Ermisch, and associate member of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, finds that having strong family ties with your parents or adult children discourages the development of trust in strangers.

A new study by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s Senior Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Andrea Tilstra and colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder finds that ‘obstetric racism’ is prevalent in the US, and is contributing to a sharp rise in medically questionable inductions that could be harming Black and Latina mothers and babies.

A team of researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, led by Dr Douglas Leasure, have published a novel paper that provides one of the only quantitative estimates of internal displacement in virtual real-time.

Does having a night owl chronotype help night shift workers sleep better? New research from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science finds that having the genetics of a night owl protects night shift workers against sleep loss. Watch the video below to find out more!