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Shiro Horiuchi
Professor; Coordinator, Demography Certificate Program Hunter College; The Graduate Center; CUNY Institute for Demographic Research
Degrees/Diplomas: PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1981
Campus Affiliation: Hunter College
Research Interests: Longevity and aging, Mathematical demography and demographic methodology
Phone: 212-396-7749

Primary Teaching Areas

Biostatistics
Methods of Demographic Analysis

Selected Publications
 

Horiuchi S. Major causes of the rapid longevity extension in postwar Japan. Japan Journal of Population, 2011; 9:28-37.
Thatcher AR, Cheung SLK, Horiuchi S, and Robine, JM. The compression of deaths above the mode. Demographic Research 2010; 22:505-538.

Horiuchi S, Wilmoth JR, and Pletcher S. A decomposition method based on a model of continuous change. Demography, 2008; 45(4):785-801.

Glei D, Horiuchi S. The narrowing sex gap in life expectancy: Effects of sex differences in the age pattern of mortality. Population Studies, 2007; 61(2):141-159.

Horiuchi S. Causes of death among the oldest-old: Distributions and age variations. In: Robine JM, Crimmins E, Horiuchi S, Zeng Y, eds., Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population. Springer, pp.215-235, 2006.

Horiuchi S, Finch C, Mesle F, and Vallin J. Differential patterns of age-related mortality increase in middle age and old age. Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, 2003; 58A(6):495-507.

Horiuchi S. Interspecies comparison of life span distribution: Humans versus invertebrates. In: Carey J, Tuljapurkar S, eds., Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological and Demographic Perspectives, (Population and Development Review, Special Supplement to Volume 29), pp. 127-151, 2003.

Education

  • BA, Keio University, 1970
  • MA, Keio University, 1972
  • PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1981