Ingrid van Dijk

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Assistant professor @ Lund Economic Demography / Economic History. Interested in changes in health 1800s-today, health inequalities, differences between families and intergenerational change. I use linked historical and modern register data, and study mortality, morbidity and health indicators such as stature. Find out more on www.ingridvandijk.com and I'm also still on Twitter: @IngridvanDij
Websitewww.ingridvandijk.com
Assistant ProfessorEconomic Demography, Department of Economic History
Ingrid van DijkJan 4, 2023
Received an invitation to do a double blind review over the holidays and reminder number five, send on New Year's Eve, contains the names of the authors of the paper 🙃
Ingrid van DijkNov 21, 2022
Kris InwoodNov 21, 2022
Woooh, this title is 🔥 - super fascinating new WP: The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality. Alex Hollingsworth, Krzysztof Karbownik, Melissa A. Thomasson & Anthony Wray https://nber.org/papers/w30663
Access to a hospital supported by The Duke Endowment in the early 20th century reduced infant mortality by 10% & reduced the Black-White infant mortality gap by 1/3. The effect persisted into later life with a 9% reduction in mortality between the ages of 56 & 65.
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

NBER
Ingrid van DijkNov 21, 2022
Final lecture "Population and living standard" on demographic inequality across time this morning. What does the social gradient in health and fertility look like today and in the past 150 years, and what are some of the causes of change?
Ingrid van DijkNov 19, 2022
Conrad Hackett Nov 19, 2022
Norway's flag includes the flags of 6 other countries
https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/2015/05/flag-of-norway-the-mother-of-all-flags/
Flag of Norway: the mother of all flags | The Flag Institute

Norway’s flag is by no means the oldest in the world, though having been designed in 1821 by MP Fredrik Meltzer (1779-1855), it is older than most. With proportions of 8:11 it certainly isn’t the largest. It isn’t unique in design either since all of Scandinavia (except Greenland) uses the iconic Nordic Cross. Red, white […]

The Flag Institute
Ingrid van DijkNov 18, 2022
pengzell.bsky.socialNov 18, 2022
”The disproportionate scientific productivity of elite researchers can be largely explained by their substantial labor advantage rather than inherent differences in talent.” http://scim.ag/AV
Ingrid van DijkNov 18, 2022
Philip N CohenNov 18, 2022
#Demography Fact A Day: According to the latest @PRBdata estimate, 6.8% of all humans ever born are alive today: 8 billion out of 117 billion. https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/. #population
How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?

The global population milestone of 8 billion people represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.

PRB
Ingrid van DijkNov 18, 2022
#introduction!
I'm a #sociologist, #demographer and #historian working on long-term change in #population #health. I'm interested in #healthinequalities, differences between #families and #intergenerational change, and #earlylife effects on health outcomes. I study #mortality, #morbidity, #reproductivehealth and #stature. I use historical register data as well as Swedish #registerdata. More on www.ingridvandijk.com!
Ingrid van DijkNov 18, 2022
Which social groups were most affected by the Spanish flu?
New paper out on socioeconomic status and occupational differences in Spanish flu mortality.
The paper is co-authored w Auke Rijpma, Ruben Schalk, Richard Zijdeman, and Rick Mourits.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101179