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A new study by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science's Dr Casey Breen finds that owning a home in early adult life adds approximately four months to the lives of male Americans born in the early twentieth century.

On 17 October 2024, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science hosted the inaugural Demographic Science Summit to celebrate five years of disrupting and realigning demography for the benefit of populations around the world.

Researchers have developed a new interactive tool to view inequality indicators. It allows journalists, policymakers, researchers, and data scientists to visually explore and understand inequalities more precisely than ever.

Published today in Digital Health, a novel study by researchers in the UK and Denmark provides the first publicly accessible analysis of global downloads for menstrual tracking apps.

A recent study conducted by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Columbia University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, reveals significant gender bias in the media coverage of protests in China, and highlights the systematic underreporting and misrepresentation of women’s protests.

Innovative research from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics uses sharing economy data as a ‘seismograph’ to trace the effects of societal events on attitudes. Results show an immediate and long-lasting uptick in the costs imposed on Arab-Muslim Airbnb hosts after the November 2015 Paris terror attacks.

A recent study led by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science’s Associate Professor Charles Rahal provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on how charities and voluntary organisations contribute to service delivery for the UK's National Health Service (NHS).

What is historical demography and what can demographers learn from it? In this research spotlight, we catch up with Dr Romola Davenport, Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge’s Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and member of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

Published in Nature, a team of researchers from the UK, USA, Norway, Australia, and the Netherlands is calling for a shift towards family-based sampling to advance genetic research.