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. & Scherbov, S. (2020). Prospects of activity limitations among older adults in 23 low and middle income countries. Scientific Reports 10 (1) 10.1038/s41598-020-67166-4.
Loichinger, E. & Weber, D. (2020). Combining Working Life and Health Expectancies. In: International Handbook of Health Expectancies. pp. 249-261 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-37666-6 10.1007/978-3-030-37668-0_18.
Spitzer, S. & Weber, D. (2019). Reporting biases in self-assessed physical and cognitive health status of older Europeans. PLoS ONE 14 (10) e0223526. 10.1371/journal.pone.0223526.
Umansky, K., Lutz, W. , & Weber, D. (2019). The Impact of Education and Age Cohort on Attitudes toward Immigration in Europe. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-19-008
Prasitsiriphon, O. & Weber, D. (2019). Objective physical measures and their association with subjective functional limitations in a representative study population of older Thais. BMC Geriatrics 19 (1) 10.1186/s12877-019-1093-3.