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Roland Rau
Research Scientist, PPARC- Contact Info
- Location: 190 Rubenstein Hall
- Office Phone: 919 613 9349 (North Carolina)
- Office Fax: 919 684 9940
- Email Address:
- Mailing Address: Rm 190 Rubenstein Hall Duke University, Campus Box 90309, Durham, NC 27708
- PPARC Grants:
- P01 AG008761 0001: Oldest Old Mortality - Demographic Models and Analysis: Project 1 - Exceptional Human Longevity in International Context
- Education:
- Dr. rer. pol. in Demography, University of Rostock, 2005
- Dipl. rer. pol., University of Bamberg, 2001
Research Interests:
Demography
Current Projects: Exceptional Human Longevity in International Context
Research Summary:
My research is centered around mortality at ages 80 and higher in developed countries.
- Representative Publications
- Roland Rau, Seasonality in Human Mortality. A Demographic Approach, Demographic Research Monographs (2007), Heidelberg: Springer [available here] .
- Roland Rau, Eugeny Soroko, Domantas Jasilionis, James W. Vaupel, 10 years after Kannisto: further evidence for mortality decline at advanced ages in developed countries, MPIDR Working Paper (October, 2006), Rostock: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (WP-2006-033.) [pdf] .
- Gabriele Doblhammer, Roland Rau, Josef Kytir, Trends in educational and occupational differentials in all-cause mortality in Austria between 1981/82 and 1991/92, Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift - The Middle European Journal of Medicine, vol. 117 no. 13-14 (2005), pp. 468-479 [pdf] .
- Roland Rau, Winter mortality in elderly people in Britain: lack of social gradient in winter excess mortality is obvious in Denmark (Letter), British Medical Journal, vol. 329 no. 7472 (2004), pp. 976-977 [976-b] .