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Jeroen Spijker

ORCID 0000-0002-3957-9553 Researcher

Educational qualifications: Ph.D in Demography (University of Groningen)
Research Theme/s: Education and work, Health Inequalities, Ageing and Society, Health, Mortality and Causes of Death, Elderly Care

Jeroen Spijker is currently a "Ramón y Cajal" research fellow at the Center for Demographic Studies (CED). He obtained a BA in 1994 in Sociology and Human Geography from Massey University, New Zealand and a Master in 1997 and PhD in 2004 in Spatial Sciences (specialisation Demography) from Groningen University, the Netherlands.
The first time he came to the CED was in 2002 on a Marie Curie grant to complete his doctorate. Subsequently, from 2004 to 2012, he formed part of the CED research team. In 2012, the Catalan Government awarded him a two-months travel grant to do research at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center. After that he worked for nearly two years at the University of Edinburgh (UK) and four months at the Vienna Institute of Demography. Since January 2015 he has returned to CED and now co-leads the research area "Health and Ageing".
Jeroen is interested in a wide range of issues, including population ageing, socioeconomic determinants of mortality, the epidemiological transition, cohort changes in height and weight, the effect of education on the time of marriage, and family transitions after divorce and widowhood.

His blogs:

 

Divorce Atlas

Salut i Crisi (Projecte Recercaixa)
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2021-2024
La salud de las personas de edad avanzada: el análisis de la comorbilidad, las múltiples causes de muerte y las desigualdades de género y socioeconómicas en la salud (COMORHEALTHSES)

Funding entity: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Reference: PID2020-113934RB-I00

2021-2024
Inequalities in informal caregiving over the adult life course in Europe: social participation, health and the influence of COVID-19’ (EUROCARE)

Funding entity: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Reference: PCI2021-121983

2018-2020
¿Las personas mayores tendrán parientes que les podrán cuidar en el futuro? Un estudio basado en un modelo mixto de micro-simulación y en agentes (ABM)

Funding entity: Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad

Reference: CSO2017-89721-R

2016-2018
Anàlisi demogràfica de les desigualtats socioeconòmiques de la salut a Catalunya en el context de la darrera crisi econòmica: gènere, generació i territori

Funding entity: Programa RecerCaixa (Obra Social “la Caixa” amb la col·laboració de l'Associació Catalana d’Universitats Públiques-ACUP)

Reference: RecerCaixa 2015

2015-2017
¿Con quién viviré y quién me cuidará? Determinantes actuales y futuros de las pautas de convivencia y de dependencia de la población mayor

Funding entity: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Programa Estatal de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad

Reference: CSO2014-60113-R