Jonathan Auerbach

Overview

Jonathan Auerbach is a statistician at Columbia University. He co-authored the methodological comment with Andrew Gelman identifying age-aggregation bias in the Case and Deaton (2015) mortality analysis.

Key Contributions

• Age-Aggregation Bias (Gelman and Auerbach 2016a): Co-identified the within-band age composition shift as a partial explanation for the apparent steady increase in white non-Hispanic midlife mortality 1999–2013; produced the age-adjusted figures showing the post-2005 plateau and sex asymmetry.

Related

• Andrew Gelman
• Deaths of Despair
• Period Mortality

Sources

• Gelman and Auerbach 2016a — Age-Aggregation Bias in Mortality Trends