Journal Articles
Alburez-Gutierrez, D., U. Basellini and E. Zagheni (forthcoming).
When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in maternal age at offspring loss
Population Studies. Github R codes ; MPIDR Working Paper (open access)
Basellini, U., C.G. Camarda and H. Booth (2023).
Thirty years on: A review of the Lee-Carter method for forecasting mortality
International Journal of Forecasting, 39(3), 1033-1049. Journal link (open access); Github R codes ; SocArXiv pre-print (open access)
van Raalte, A.A., U. Basellini, C.G. Camarda M. Nepomuceno and M. Myrskylä (2023).
The dangers of drawing cohort profiles from period data: a research note
Demography, 60(6), 1689-1698. Journal link (open access); OSF R codes ; SocArXiv pre-print (open access)
Aburto, J.M., U. Basellini, A. Baudisch and F. Villavicencio (2022).
Drewnowski's index to measure lifespan variation: Revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table
Theoretical Population Biology, 148, 1-10. Journal link (open access); Github R codes ; arXiv pre-print
Basellini, U. and C.G. Camarda (2022).
Explaining regional differences in mortality during the first wave of Covid-19 in Italy
Population Studies, 76(1), 99-118. Journal link (open access); OSF R codes ; SocArXiv pre-print
Nigri, A., J.M. Aburto, U. Basellini and M. Bonetti (2022).
Evaluation of age-specific causes of death in the context of the Italian longevity transition
Scientific Reports, 12, 22624. Journal link (open access); OSF R codes ; SocArXiv pre-print
Vanella, P., U. Basellini and B. Lange (2021).
Assessing Excess Mortality in Times of Pandemics Based on Principal Component Analysis of Weekly Mortality Data – The Case of COVID-19
Genus, 77, 16. Journal link (open access); ArXiv pre-print
Riffe, T., E. Acosta, U. Basellini, the COVerAGE-DB team (2021).
Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
International Journal of Epidemiology, 50(2), 390-390f. Journal link (open access); OSF database ; Github page ; medRxiv pre-print
Basellini, U., D. Alburez-Gutierrez, E. Del Fava, D. Perrotta, M. Bonetti, C.G. Camarda and E. Zagheni (2021).
Linking excess mortality to mobility data during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales
SSM - Population Health. Journal link (open access); OSF R codes ; SocArXiv pre-print
Press release from the MPIDR available here
Winner of the 2021 Jan M. Hoem Paper Award (MPIDR announcement)
Camarda, C.G. and U. Basellini (2021).
Smoothing, Decomposing and Forecasting Mortality Rates
European Journal of Population, 37, 569-602. Journal link (full-text available from ResearchGate); OSF R codes
Short interview from INED (in French) available here
Bonetti, M. and U. Basellini (2021).
Epilocal: A real-time tool for local epidemic monitoring
Demographic Research, 44(12), 307-332. Online link (open access with reproducible material) ; Dedicated shinyapp ; ArXiv pre-print
Bocconi Knowledge News available here
Pascariu, M.D., U. Basellini, J.M. Aburto and V. Canudas-Romo (2020).
The Linear Link: Deriving Age-Specific Death Rates from Life Expectancy
Risks, 8(4), 109. Online link (open access), Github R codes
Basellini, U., S. Kjærgaard and C.G. Camarda (2020).
An age-at-death distribution approach to forecast cohort mortality
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 91, 129-143. Science direct link, Pre-print version, GitHub R codes
Short summary (in French) in the INED 2020 Annual Report available here
Aburto, J.M., F. Villavicencio, U. Basellini, S. Kjærgaard and J.W. Vaupel (2020).
Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(10), 5250-5259. PNAS link (open access), Zonedo R codes
Basellini, U., and C.G. Camarda (2019).
Modelling and Forecasting Adult Age-at-death Distributions
Population Studies, 73(1), 119-138. Taylor & Francis link, Post-print version, GitHub R codes
Basellini, U., V. Canudas-Romo and A. Lenart (2019).
Location-Scale Models in Demography: A Useful Re-parameterization of Mortality Models
European Journal of Population, 35, 645-673. Springer link, Post-print version, GitHub R codes
Sutter, A., S. Barton, M.D. Sharma, U. Basellini, D. Hosken and C.R. Archer (2018).
Senescent declines in elite tennis players are similar across the sexes
Behavioral Ecology, 29(6), 1351-1358. Oxford Academic link (open access)
Archer, C.R., U. Basellini, J. Hunt, S.J. Simpson, K.P. Lee and A. Baudish (2018).
Diet has independent effects on the pace and shape of aging in Drosophila melanogaster
Biogerontology, 19(1), 1-12. Springer link (open access)
Gigliarano, C., U. Basellini and M. Bonetti (2017).
Longevity and concentration in survival times: the log-scale-location family of failure time models
Lifetime Data Analysis , 23(2), 254-274. Springer link ; Full-text view-only version ; Dondena working paper