Daniela Weber
Senior Research Scholar
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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Biography
Daniela Weber joined the IIASA World Population Program (POP) in 2010, where she works on aging. She is also an assistant professor in health economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.Dr. Weber graduated in technical mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology in 2005 and in 2012, she graduated in statistics at the University of Vienna. She completed her PhD at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2015 with the dissertation "An International Perspective on Aging and Cognitive Decline".
Her research focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals on health and gender equality. For instance, Dr. Weber investigates living conditions associated with gender differences in cognitive as well as physical functioning.
Last update: 04 FEB 2020
Publications
Weber, D. , Skirbekk, V., Freund, I., & Herlitz, A. (2014). The changing face of cognitive gender differences in Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (32) 11673-11678. 10.1073/pnas.1319538111.
Skirbekk, V., Bordone, V., & Weber, D. (2014). A cross-country comparison of math achievement at teen age and cognitive performance 40 years later. Demographic Research 31 (4) 105-118. 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.4.
Weber, D. & Skirbekk, V. (2014). The Educational Effect on Cognitive Functioning: National versus Individual Educational Attainment. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-14-008
Skirbekk, V., Stonawski, M., & Weber, D. (2013). Could nations invest in cognitive skills and become effectively younger? SAGW Bulletin 1/2013, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bern, Switzerland pp.48-49 (January 2013)
Bordone, V. & Weber, D. (2012). Number of children and cognitive abilities in later life. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. pp. 95-126 Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 10.1553/populationyearbook2012s95.