Tianyu Shen

Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences

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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
Mar 01, 2025 Joining the editorial board of SAGE Open
Jan 31, 2025 Finally, I am a Dr. now :tada: :tada:

selected publications

  1. AJE
    Changing educational attainment as a driver of cohort changes in healthy longevity: a decomposition analysis of US birth cohorts
    Tianyu Shen, Alyson Van Raalte, and Collin F. Payne
    American Journal of Epidemiology, Mar 2025.
  2. Modeling Disability-Free Life Expectancy With Duration Dependence: A Research Note on the Bias in the Markov Assumption
    Tianyu Shen, and James O’Donnell
    Demography, Dec 2024. Code can be found here.
  3. SMR
    Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to the Multiple Multistate Method (MMM)
    Tianyu Shen, Collin F. Payne, and Maria Jahromi
    Sociological Methods & Research, Sep 2024. Code can be found here.
  4. Decomposition of Differentials in Health Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research Note
    Tianyu Shen, Tim Riffe, Collin F. Payne, and Vladimir Canudas-Romo
    Demography, Nov 2023. Code can be found here.
  5. The Components of Change in Population Growth Rates
    Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Tianyu Shen, and Collin F. Payne
    Demography, Apr 2022. Interactive results can be found here.