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University of California, Berkeley
CEDA supports cutting-edge discovery and dissemination of knowledge on the demography of aging by supporting new research via pilot project funding; providing support for programming, computing, and data access; facilitating and encouraging interdisciplinary interactions and innovation; organizing conferences and seminars; supporting junior faculty development; and disseminating research findings.
Research Themes
Biology, genetics and demography of aging; Consequences of U.S. and global aging; Health trends and disparities; Determinants of health, well-being and longevity; Population, economic and health forecasting; Behavioral economics.
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Pilot Projects
Pilot Projects
2024 Andrew Kim Intergenerational effects of maternal prenatal stress on adult offspring glucocorticoid resistance and psychiatric morbidity in Soweto, South Africa: a study of accelerated immunosenescence
Priority Research Areas: Biology, Genetics and Demography of Aging2024 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes Immigration Enforcement and Quality of Care Provided by Home Health Agencies
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care2024 Dennis Feehan Evaluating humanitarian surveys as a potential resource for understanding mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Priority Research Areas: Population, Economic and Health Forecasting2024 Ethan Ligon The Effect of Old Age Pensions on Nutritional Outcomes: Evidence from the Zanzibar Universal Pension Scheme
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2024 Layla Kwong How does heat stress affect telomere length? A pilot randomized controlled trial in urban Bangladesh
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2024 Magali Barbieri Improving the measurement mortality at ages 80 years and above in aging populations
Priority Research Areas: Mortality Measurements2023 Lisa Barcellos Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure on the Epigenome and Health in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2023 Michael Walker Unconditional cash transfers and aging: experimental evidence from Kenya
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2023 Rebecca Staiger How does chronic condition care received in Medicaid affect health utilization and outcomes in Medicare?
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care2023 Rosemarie de la Rosa Longitudinal analysis of childhood adversity and epigenetic aging
Priority Research Areas: Biology, Genetics and Demography of Aging2022 Joseph Shapiro, UC Berkeley Drinking Water Quality, the Health of Older Americans, and Inequality
Priority Research Areas: Health Trends and Disparities2022 Ming Hsu, UC Berkeley Vulnerability of Older individuals To Financial Fraud: Insights from Behavioral and Neural Evidence
Priority Research Areas: Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia2022 Ned Augenblick, UC Berkeley Identifying the Effects of Administrative Complexity on Healthcare Provision and Health Outcomes
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care2022 Sarah Reynolds, UC Berkeley Grandparent and grandchild coresidency: Prevalence and impact on grandparents'health, cognitions & well-being
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2022 Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford Spatial and Temporal Variation in Age at Death in the US
Priority Research Areas: Mortality Measurements2021 Amanda Brewster, UC Berkeley Is Home and Community-Based Services access and quality better when providers have a greater social service focus
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care2021 Dennis Feehan, UC Berkeley Social network methods for estimating adult death rates in the absence of vital registration
Priority Research Areas: Mortality Measurements in LMIC2021 William H. Dow, UC Berkeley Long-Term Effects of Social Insurance on Adult Mortality in Mexico
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care2021 David Levine, UC Berkeley Can theories of social identity and of nudges increase uptake of a vaccine against COVID-19?
Priority Research Areas: Effects of Interventions on Population Health2021 Magali Barbieri, UC Berkeley The Mortality Burden of COVID-19 in the U.S. – A Case Study in Minnesota
Priority Research Areas: Health Trends and Disparities2021 Ben Handel, UC Berkeley Can Tele-Medicine Increase Access and Make Health Care Delivery More Accessible? Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Chronic Disease Treatment and Outcomes
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2021 Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley Using mHealth Technology to Improve Retention in Care and Health of Chronic Patients
Priority Research Areas: Disability, Health Care and Long-Term Care2020 Gretchen Donehower, UC Berkeley Population Aging and the demand for paid and unpaid care: the US in international context
Dates subject to NOA
2020 Jim Carey, UC Davis Recording Lifetime Activity, sleep patterns and reproduction to assess health span and predict time-to-death in the Mediterranean fruit fly
At UC Davis Dates subject to NOA
2020 Justin White, UC Berkeley A Pilot Trial of Gamification for Enhancing a Smoking Cessation App
At UCSF Dates subject to NOA
2020 Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley How Excess Sugar Consumption Early in Life Affects Health in Adulthood
Dates subject to NOA
2019 Andres Cardenas, UC Berkeley Resilient Epigenomes; DNA Methylation Signatures of "Blue-Zone" Residents
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2019 Hilary Hoynes The Effects of Employment Incentives and Cash Transfers on Adult Mortality: Evidence from the Long Run Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments
Priority Research Areas: Effects of Interventions on Population Health2019 Ming Hsu Memory based choices and its neural substrates
Priority Research Areas: Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia2018 Daniel Schneider Job loss and health among U.S. manufacturers: using Facebook to augment existing data sources
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2018 Ellen Eisen Deaths of Despair and Job Loss in a Cohort of Autoworkers
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2018 James Carey Lineage and Lifespan: Use of Historical Familiy Databases to Analyze the Relationships of Family and Wealth to Longevity
Priority Research Areas: Population, Economic and Health Forecasting2018 Leora Lawton Assessing Relationships Between Social Networks and Well-being
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2018 Stephanie Child Use of Redirected Inbound Call Sampling for Increasing Access to Research Participation among Black Americans
Priority Research Areas: Health Trends and Disparities2017 Dow, William H. Health and Aging in Cuba
Priority Research Areas: Determinants of Health, Well-Being and Longevity2017 Jagust, William The Influence of Aging on Neural Systems Mediating Behavioral Responses to Financial Rewards
Priority Research Areas: Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia2017 Joshua Goldstein, UC Berkeley Towards a new, public data set for studying mortality inequality: Matching the 1940 U.S. Census with Social Security death records, 1963-2011
Priority Research Areas: Health Trends and Disparities2017 Shachar Kariv, UC Berkeley Predicting Elderly Health Behaviors and Outcomes Using Decision-making Quality and Risk Attitudes
Priority Research Areas: Cognitive Aging and the Demography of Dementia2016 Jonathan Kolstad and Benjamin Handel Preventive Care Utilization and Health Effects of Physician Incentives and Information
2016 Joshua Goldstein Hispanic Names, Acculturation, and Health
2016 Magali Barbieri Beyond the HMD: Developing a Mortality Database for the Rest of the World
2016 Ronald Lee The socioeconomic gradient in US Age-related transfers, health and mortality
2015 Ming Hsu Tracking Decision-Making Capacities Across the Lifespan: New experimental approaches
2015 Alexander Gelber The Effect of Social Security Benefits on Retirement: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts
2015 Luis Rosero-Bixby Population Aging and Socioeconomic Inequality in National Transfer Accounts
2015 Ming Hsu Game-Based Approaches to Measuring Decision-Making
2015 Rucker Johnson Interlocking Pathways of Mobility from Education to Adult Health
2015 Stefano Dellavigna Expert Forecasts: An Exploration on Health and Aging Experiments
2015 James Carey Aging in Wild Drosophila Fruitfly Populations
2014 Emilio Zagheni Empirical Bayes Approaches for Imperfect Human Mortality Data
Original pilot award through June 30, 2015. Carryforward request will be made in July 2015
2014 William Dow Epigenetic Characteristics of the High Longevity Nicoyan Population of Costa Rica
2014 Kenneth Wachter Alleles Affecting Longevity as a Genome-Wide Statistical Ensemble"
Original pilot award through June 30, 2015. Carryforward request will be made in July 2015
2014 Ulrike Malmendier Experiences and Expectations
Original pilot award through June 30, 2015. Carryforward request will be made in July 2015
2014 Don Moore Overconfidence Over the Lifespan
2014 Ming Hsu Decline in monoamine turnover and its effects on decision-making in older adults
2014 Shachar Kariv The quality of the economic decision-making of the elderly: A Combined Survey and Field experiment
2013 Ming Hsu Decline in monoamine turnover and its effects on decision-making in older adults
2011 Ken Wachter Genetic Markers in the Health and Retirement Study: Risk Aversion, Height, and Health
2010 Shachar Kariv The Consistency and Heterogeneity of Individual Behavior under Uncertainty: A Combined Survey and Field Experiment
2009 William Dow Using Group Commitment To Promote Smoking Cessation in Thailand
2009 Claude Fischer Changes in Social Networks over the Later Life Cycle
2007 Ivry, Richard The benefit of sleep on reward-based learning of gains and losses in older adults
2006 William Satariano Environmental Correlates of Disability in an Older Population
2006 William Dow Costa Rican Census Mortality Linkage
1999 John Wilmoth Measurement of Mortality Differentials for the US
1999 Ronald Lee Intergenerational transfers among the Maya of Yucatan
1998 Kenneth Wachter Multivariate Indices of Short-term Risk of Death, Heart Failure, and Stroke in Elderly Persons
Center-Supported Publications
Center-Supported Publications
- Beyond the underlying cause of death: an algorithm to study multi-morbidity at death
- Socioeconomic inequalities in national transfers accounts in Ecuador 2006 and 2011: Did a new socialist government make a difference?
- Daily Activity Profiles over the Lifespan of Female Medflies as Biomarkers of Aging and Longevity
- Longitudinal activity monitoring and lifespan: quantifying the interface
- Acceptability of heart rate-based remote monitoring of smoking status
- Evaluating the Impact of a Game (Inner Dragon) on User Engagement Within a Leading Smartphone App for Smoking Cessation: Randomized Controlled Trial
- Do Conditional Cash Transfers Reduce Hypertension?
- Do Earmarks Target Low-Income and Minority Communities? Evidence from US Drinking Water
- CenSoc: Public Linked Administrative Mortality Records for Individual-level Research
- Educational gradient in social network changes at disease diagnosis
- Centenarian clocks: epigenetic clocks for validating claims of exceptional longevity
- Congressional Symmetry: Years Remaining Mirror Years Served in the U.S. House and Senate
- Congressional symmetry: years remaining mirror years served in the U.S. House and Senate
- The inheritance of social status: England, 1600 to 2022
- Stationary status of discrete and continuous age-structured population models
- Artificial diet alters activity and rest patterns in the olive fruit fly
- Developing a Game (Inner Dragon) Within a Leading Smartphone App for Smoking Cessation: Design and Feasibility Evaluation Study
- Connecting Fathers: Fathers' Impact on Adult Children's Social Networks
- Life course transitions and changes in network ties among younger and older adults
- Socioeconomic Disparities Do Not Explain the U.S. International Disadvantage in Mortality
- The US Midlife Mortality Crisis Continues: Excess Cause-Specific Mortality During 2020
- Epigenome-wide association study and epigenetic age acceleration associated with cigarette smoking among Costa Rican adults
- Network Support and Negative Life Events Associated With Chronic Cardiometabolic Disease Outcomes
- Electronic recording of lifetime locomotory activity patterns of adult medflies
- Can targeted messages reduce COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy? A randomized trial
- County-level socio-economic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the USA
- County-level socio-economic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the USA
- Race/Ethnic Differences, Skin Tone, and Memory Among Older Latinos in the United States
- Cuba's cardiovascular risk factors: International comparison of levels and education gradients
- Geographically-targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable than age-based thresholds alone
- Vaccinating the oldest against COVID-19 saves both the most lives and most years of life
- The short-term mortality fluctuation data series, monitoring mortality shocks across time and space
- Direct and Moderating Causal Effects of Network Support on Sleep Quality: Findings From the UC Berkeley Social Network Study.
- Erratum to: Direct and Moderating Causal Effects of Network Support on Sleep Quality: Findings From the UC Berkeley Social Network Study.
- Evaluation of the Cancer Transition Theory in the US, Select European Nations, and Japan by Investigating Mortality of Infectious- and Noninfectious-Related Cancers, 1950-2018
- THE US MIDLIFE MORTALITY CRISIS CONTINUES: EXCESS CAUSE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY DURING 2020
- Diet and Leukocyte Telomere Length in a Population with Extended Longevity: The Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES)
- Different Discussion Partners and Their Effect on Depression among Older Adults
- Associations between education and dementia in the Caribbean and the United States: An international comparison
- Distinctive egg-laying patterns in terminal versus non-terminal periods in three fruit fly species
- Network Support and Negative Life Events Associated With Chronic Cardiometabolic Disease Outcomes
- Augmenting Frontal Dopamine Tone Enhances Maintenance over Gating Processes in Working Memory
- Retrieval-constrained valuation: Toward prediction of open-ended decisions
- Estimating Adult Death Rates From Sibling Histories: A Network Approach
- Improved measurement of racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the United States
- As the Wind Blows: The Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Mortality
- Demographic perspectives on the mortality of COVID-19 and other epidemics
- On Negative Heritability and Negative Estimates of Heritability
- They Drive Me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being
- Suicide, overdose and worker exit in a cohort of Michigan autoworkers
- Personal networks and associations with psychological distress among young and older adults
- A Hierarchical Bayesian Implementation of the Experience-Weighted Attraction Model
- Childlessness and upward intergenerational support: cross-national evidence from 11 European countries
- Age-related variability in decision-making: Insights from neurochemistry
- Common neural code for reward and information value
- The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers
- Difficult People: Who Is Perceived to Be Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There?
- Statistical properties of simple random-effects models for genetic heritability
- A Flexible Bayesian Model for Estimating Subnational Mortality
- Overconfidence over the lifespan
- Neural Mechanisms of Updating under Reducible and Irreducible Uncertainty
- Social preferences of future physicians
- A MODEL OF NONBELIEF IN THE LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS
- Genotyping Oral Commensal Bacteria to Predict Social Contact and Structure
- Cognitive neuroscience of honesty and deception: A signaling framework
- Data Resource Profile: The Human Mortality Database (HMD)
- The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality
- Dopamine modulates egalitarian behavior in humans
- A cohort model of fertility postponement
- Evolutionary shaping of demographic schedules
- The age-specific force of natural selection and biodemographic walls of death
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Neuroeconomic measures of social decision-making across the lifespan
- The outlook for population growth
