Overview
Adrien Remund is a demographer at the University of Geneva (Institute of Demography and Socioeconomics), also affiliated with INED (Paris) and the Swiss NCCR LIVES programme. His research focuses on young adult mortality, cause-of-death analysis, and demographic methods for decomposing mortality patterns. He is the lead author of the 2018 Demography paper introducing the SSE-based method for decomposing the young adult mortality hump by cause of death.
Key Contributions / Features
- Remund, Camarda, and Riffe (2018, Demography): Lead author; defines the young adult mortality hump as excess mortality beyond the prevailing senescent level; proposes a nonparametric SSE+cause-deletion method to decompose the hump by cause of death; applied to U.S. males and females 1959–2015; documents divergent trends between hump and observed rates, and the shift from traffic accidents to suicides/homicides/poisonings in male hump composition; MortHump R package implementation (CRAN).
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