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The SHAW Group’s research activities directly and comprehensively addresses the measurement of human wellbeing in its multiple dimensions with a special focus on health as a key component and social cohesion as a key determinant of wellbeing.
SHAW employs various demographic methods, statistical techniques, and empirical concepts to comprehensively assess different dimensions of good health and wellbeing, while also considering equity in the distribution of wellbeing over time and over the life course for different populations around the world. In doing so, the group aims to develop alternative indicators of wellbeing to effectively measure development progress. The aim is for such indicators of wellbeing to be applied as long-term sustainability criteria that can help to pinpoint vulnerable subgroups of populations for policy priorities. Due to the group’s strong focus on sustainable human wellbeing, particular attention is paid to the feedback of emerging situations such as pandemics, economic crises, and extreme weather events that can pose risks to human health and wellbeing.
Projects
The Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing (EmpoweredLifeYears)
Cognitive health in aging society – The role of context for cognitive functioning and related policy implications in Europe (CHIAS)
Sustainability Performances, Evidence and Scenarios (SPES)
Staff
Roman Hoffmann
Research Group Leader and Research Scholar (MIG); Acting Research Group Leader and Research Scholar (SHAW)
Dalkhat Ediev
Guest Senior Research Scholar (SHAW)
Wendy Vanesa Ramírez González
Guest Research Assistant (SHAW)
Nadia Steiber
Guest Research Scholar (SHAW)
News
24 November 2022
How COVID-19 school closures will affect inequalities in adult skills
School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected learning to varying degrees in different countries. A new study sheds light on what this learning loss will mean for countries' human capital in the decades to come.
23 November 2022
What was the true human cost of the pandemic in Russia?
A new study assesses the number of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and introduces a novel methodology that will help to get a clearer view of pandemics in the future.
28 September 2022
Demography matters: the human life from birth to death
IIASA researchers participate in a seminar titled "Demography matters: the human life from birth to death", organized by Vienna Institute of Demography and Wittgenstein Centre.
Events
12 April 2023 New Orleans, USA
IIASA at the PAA Annual Meeting 2023
09 March 2023 Online
Round Table on Understanding Climate-related Mobility in Contexts of Urbanization
14 February 2023 University of Paris - Dauphine, Paris-France
Global Meeting on Building Sustainable Generational Economies
Focus
07 September 2022
The migration maze
To navigate the intricate intersection of climate change, migration, and urbanization, we need a holistic approach.
17 June 2021
Getting a fuller picture of COVID-19 infections
Options Summer 2021: Knowing how many people are infected is key to accurately monitor pandemics. IIASA researchers used a novel approach to indirectly estimate the fraction of people ever infected and the fraction of people detected among the infected in the United States.
24 June 2020
The gender dimension of sustainable development
Options Summer 2020: Our world is in the midst of an economic transformation as labor upheavals and climate change wreak havoc on present sustainability models. Could a focus on women’s empowerment help find a way out?
Publications
Adhikari, S., Lutz, W., & K.C., S. (2023). Rural/urban fertility differentials in the Global South: Is female education the key driver of declining birth rates? IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-23-004
Sanchez-Romero, M. & Prskawetz, A. (2023). Social Security Reforms in Heterogeneous Aging Populations. In: The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing. Eds. Bloom, D.E., Souza-Posa, A., & Sunde, U., Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-036771-332-4 (In Press)
Scherbov, S. & Sanderson, W. (2023). Aging and Dependency. In: The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing. Eds. Bloom, D.E., Souza-Posa, A., & Sunde, U., Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-036771-332-4 (In Press)
Stacherl, B., Renner, A.-T., & Weber, D. (2023). Financial incentives and antibiotic prescribing patterns: Evidence from dispensing physicians in a public healthcare system. Social Science & Medicine 321 e115791. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115791.
Reiter, C. , Goujon, A. , & Testa, M.R. (2023). Italy’s populaton prospects: future scenarios for the 21st century. Economia Italiana 3 15-58.