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DESCRIPTION:Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (Max Planck Institute for Demographic R
 esearch )\, “Bereavement Multipliers: Levels and Sources of Crossnational 
 Differences in Losing Close Family”\, IAST General Seminar\, Toulouse: IAS
 T\, April 7\, 2026\, 11:30–12:30\, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Bu
 ilding).\n\nMortality research has traditionally treated death as an indiv
 idual event measured through annualised rates. While this approach is esse
 ntial for monitoring population-level mortality\, it reveals little about 
 how mortality is experienced by individuals. In practice\, individuals enc
 ounter death not as statistical rates but through the loss of members of t
 heir social networks. This insight has motivated the emerging demography o
 f bereavement\, which seeks to quantify the structure and dynamics of kin 
 loss. Despite its promise\, the field lacks unified and standardised metri
 cs. Existing studies have provided illustrative estimates--for example\, r
 esearch on the COVID-19 pandemic suggested that each death in the United S
 tates left roughly nine bereaved close kin (Verdery et al. 2020)--but thes
 e calculations are context-specific and not easily generalisable across po
 pulations. Here\, we introduce a formal definition of 'bereavement multipl
 iers\,' a measure that captures the extent to which a single death is ampl
 ified through pre-existing kinship structures\, generating experiences of 
 kin loss among multiple members of the population. Our generalised methodo
 logy can be used to estimate bereavement multipliers by age\, sex\, and ca
 use of death in any population using tools from mathematical demography. P
 reliminary results reveal substantial variation in the multiplicative effe
 cts of mortality\, driven by the age-sex distribution of deaths and the un
 derlying structure of kinship networks. The framework used to estimate ber
 eavement multipliers can also be extended to measure the family prevalence
  of any age-sex structured condition within a population.
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LOCATION:Toulouse: IAST\, April 7\, 2026\, 11:30–12:30\, room Auditorium 4 
 (First floor - TSE Building)
SUMMARY:IAST General Seminar
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.iast.fr/seminars/2026-bereavement-multipliers-leve
 ls-and-sources-crossnational-differences-losing-close-family
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