Objective
How long do we live? Expectations about lifespan influence many aspects of life: from individual decisions, such as retirement savings, to public policies, such as indexation of retirement age and healthcare investments. Current practice, however, estimates expected lifespan for broad population groups, neglecting how multiple social determinants of health, including education, income, marital status and place of residence jointly shape lifespan. Lifespan branches across these determinants, forming a complex ‘tree of lifespan’. The current understanding of the tree is crudely limited to one or two determinants at a time. The Tree of Lifespan project addresses this knowledge gap by establishing the field of granular demography and providing a formal framework for estimating, forecasting and analysing lifespan across multiple intersecting social determinants of health. Its ambitions are threefold: (1) Estimation and forecasting of lifespan for fine-grained subpopulations defined by intersections of multiple social determinants of health using and evaluating mortality forecasting models and demographic reconstruction techniques when data are scarce or incomplete. (2) Formal analysis of how lifespan differences across multiple social determinants of health drive general mortality patterns and regularities through the development and application of novel demographic models and relations. (3) Evaluation of broader inequalities arising from lifespan inequalities, such as unequal survival to retirement age and unequal time spent with family members, through the analysis of transition into specific life stages and time spent in them. The Tree of Lifespan project will deliver a powerful toolbox for analysing lifespan inequalities across multiple dimensions, pioneer a new line of demographic research that uncovers the sources of unequal lifespans and paves the way for similar advances in other research areas.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) ERC-2026-STG
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