About
Shiro Furuya received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently a David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. He is a sociologist and social demographer with substantive interests in health, aging and the life course, and family. His recent publications examined how retirement causes (or does not cause) health and mortality risk among older people using a quasi-experimental framework. His research also takes an interdisciplinary approach, integrating insights from statistical genetics to address social scientific questions. His work has appeared in leading journals, such as Demography, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, The Journals of Gerontology, and among others.
External affiliations
Affiliate, the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Key Expertise
Demography; Sociology of Health; Aging and the Life Course
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