Tianyu Shen
Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Tianyu.Shen@oeaw.ac.at
Dominikanerbastei 16
1010 Vienna, Austria
I’m a postdoc researcher at the VID. I completed his doctoral degree in 2025 at the Australian National University with the dissertation on “Living Longer and Healthier? An Advancement of Methodology and Understanding on Health Expectancy”. My research centres on the analysis of social inequalities in health and multistate modelling to capture population dynamics.
I have done a bit of consulting work for the government on population projection, including “ACT population projections”, and “ACT School enrollment projection”. I am also interested in various of indirect estimation methods.
news
Mar 27, 2025 | Our new paper: Changing educational attainment as a driver of cohort changes in healthy longevity: a decomposition analysis of US birth cohorts published in American Journal of Epidemiology |
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Mar 01, 2025 | Joining the editorial board of SAGE Open |
Jan 31, 2025 | Finally, I am a Dr. now ![]() ![]() |
selected publications
- Modeling Disability-Free Life Expectancy With Duration Dependence: A Research Note on the Bias in the Markov AssumptionDemography, Dec 2024. Code can be found here.
- Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to the Multiple Multistate Method (MMM)Sociological Methods & Research, Sep 2024. Code can be found here.
- Decomposition of Differentials in Health Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research NoteDemography, Nov 2023. Code can be found here.
- The Components of Change in Population Growth RatesDemography, Apr 2022. Interactive results can be found here.