Jiaxin Shi

Thesis: 'Demographic Perspectives on Health and Economic Inequalities in Later Life'

Supervisor: Christiaan Monden and Alyson van Raalte (MPIDR)

I am a PhD candidate in Sociology and Demography at the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. My research uses mathematical, statistical, and computational methods to study the relationship between population dynamics and inequality. In particular, I often think about how demographic trends (e.g. rising longevity, changing household composition) are linked to individuals' general well-being and social life, which further generates macro-level inequality trends.

Research Interests: Demography, Population Health, Population Aging, Inequality, Family

Publications: 

• Shi, Jiaxin, and Martin Kolk. Forthcoming. How does mortality contribute to lifetime pension inequality? Evidence from five decades of Swedish taxation data. 'Demography'.
• Shi, Jiaxin, José Manuel Aburto, Pekka Martikainen, Lasse Tarkiainen, and Alyson van Raalte. 2022. A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification. 'Population Studies'.
• Permanyer, Iñaki, and Jiaxin Shi. 2022. Normalized lifespan inequality: Disentangling the longevity-lifespan variability nexus. 'Genus: Journal of Population Sciences'.
• Shi, Jiaxin, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen, and Alyson van Raalte. 2021. The impact of income definitions on mortality inequalities. 'Social Science & Medicine-Population Health', 15, 100915.