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Diego Alburez-Gutierrez

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Diego Alburez-Gutierrez leads the Independent Research Group on Kinship Inequalities at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Germany. Diego received his PhD in Demography and Population Studies (2018) and his MSc in Social Research Methods (2014) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2019, he was honored by the Max Planck Society with the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievement for his PhD thesis "Beyond excess mortality: the demographic life of a Mayan community after a war of massacres". In 2022, Diego received the BSPS Early Career Award from the British Society for Population Studies and, in 2023, he received the European Demographer Award from Population Europe. Diego is best known for his work combining formal demography and empirical data to study intergenerational family processes. His research has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Demography, Population and Development Review, and other key disciplinary journals.

MPIDR Publications

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Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.; Williams, N. E.:

The long-lasting effect of armed conflicts deaths on the living: quantifying family bereavement

Science Advances 10:30, 1–12. (2024)       

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Caswell, H.:

Projections of human kinship for all countries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:52, e2315722120–e2315722120. (2023)       

Snyder, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Zagheni, E.:

Estimates from 31 countries show the significant impact of COVID-19 excess mortality on the incidence of family bereavement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:26, e2202686119–e2202686119. (2022)       

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The demographic drivers of grief and memory after genocide in Guatemala

Demography 59:3, 1173–1194. (2022)       

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mason, C.; Zagheni, E.:

The “Sandwich Generation” revisited: global demographic drivers of care time demands

Population and Development Review 47:4, 997–1023. (2021)       

Selected Recent All

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.; Williams, N. E.:

The long-lasting effect of armed conflicts deaths on the living: quantifying family bereavement

Science Advances 10:30, 1–12. (2024)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss

Population Studies, 1–13. (2024)    

Hexel, O.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Family structure and bequest inequalities between black and white households in the United States, 1989-2022

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-008. (2024)    

Schlüter , B.-S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Bibbins-Domingo, K.; Alexander, M. J.; Kiang, M. V.:

Youth experiencing parental death due to drug poisoning and firearm violence in the US, 1999-2020

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. (2024)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.:

The long-lasting effect of armed conflicts on family bereavement

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2023)    

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Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.; Williams, N. E.:

The long-lasting effect of armed conflicts deaths on the living: quantifying family bereavement

Science Advances 10:30, 1–12. (2024)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss

Population Studies, 1–13. (2024)    

Hexel, O.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Family structure and bequest inequalities between black and white households in the United States, 1989-2022

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-008. (2024)    

Schlüter , B.-S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Bibbins-Domingo, K.; Alexander, M. J.; Kiang, M. V.:

Youth experiencing parental death due to drug poisoning and firearm violence in the US, 1999-2020

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. (2024)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.:

The long-lasting effect of armed conflicts on family bereavement

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2023)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Caswell, H.:

Projections of human kinship for all countries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:52, e2315722120–e2315722120. (2023)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Caswell, H.:

Projections of human kinship for all countries

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2023)    

Calderón-Bernal, L. P.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-034. (2023)    

Kashyap, R.; Rinderknecht, R. G.; Akbaritabar, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Grow, A.; Kim, J.; Leasure, D. R.; Lohmann, S.; Negraia, D. V.; Perrotta, D.; Rampazzo, F.; Tsai, C.-J.; Verhagen, M. D.; Zagheni, E.; Zhao, X.:

Digital and computational demography

In: Research handbook on digital sociology, 48–86. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. (2023)

Pojman, E.; Mwedzi, D. E.; Olaya Bucaro, O.; Zhang, S.; Chong, M.; Alexander, M. J.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Leaving for life: using online crowd-sourced genealogies to estimate the migrant mortality advantage for the United Kingdom and Ireland during the 18^th and 19^th centuries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-050. (2023)    

Theile, T.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Calderón-Bernal, L. P.; Snyder, M.; Zagheni, E.:

rsocsim - Socsim microsimulation R package

Software. https://github.com/MPIDR/rsocsim: GitHub. unpublished. (2023)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The demographic drivers of grief and memory after genocide in Guatemala

Demography 59:3, 1173–1194. (2022)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Barban, N.; Caswell, H.; Kolk, M.; Margolis, R.; Smith-Greenaway, E.; Song, X.; Verdery, A.; Zagheni, E.:

Kinship, demography, and inequality: review and key areas for future development

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2022)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

When do parents bury a child? Quantifying uncertainty in the parental age at offspring loss

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-016. (2022)    

Castro Torres, A. F.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

North and South: naming practices and the hidden dimension of global disparities in knowledge production

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:10, e2119373119–e2119373119. (2022)    

Chong, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Alexander, M. J.; Zagheni, E.:

Correcting historical mortality rate bias in big crowd-sourced online genealogies

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-005. (2022)    

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Theile, T.:

Desaparecidxs: characterizing the population of missing children using Twitter

In: WebSci '22: proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 26-29 June 2022, 185–190. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (2022)    

Snyder, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Zagheni, E.:

Estimates from 31 countries show the significant impact of COVID-19 excess mortality on the incidence of family bereavement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:26, e2202686119–e2202686119. (2022)    

Stelter, R.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Representativeness is crucial for inferring demographic processes from online genealogies: evidence from lifespan dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:10, e2120455119–e2120455119. (2022)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The demographic drivers of grief and memory after genocide in Guatemala

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-003. (2021)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Vivir para contarla: un análisis demográfico de las masacres de Río Negro en Guatemala (1980-1982)

Revista Análisis de la Realidad Nacional 10:208, 91–104. (2021)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Kolk, M.; Zagheni, E.:

Women's experience of child death: a global demographic perspective

Demography 58:5, 1715–1735. (2021)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mason, C.; Zagheni, E.:

The “Sandwich Generation” revisited: global demographic drivers of care time demands

Population and Development Review 47:4, 997–1023. (2021)    

Basellini, U.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Del Fava, E.; Perrotta, D.; Bonetti, M.; Camarda, C. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Linking excess mortality to mobility data during the first wave of COVID-19 in England and Wales

SSM-Population Health 14:100799, 1–18. (2021)    

Castro Torres, A. F.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

North and South: naming practices and the hidden dimension of global disparities in knowledge production

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-014. (2021)    

Martinez-Folgar, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Paniagua-Avila, A.; Ramirez-Zea, M.; Bilal, U.:

Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala

American Journal of Public Health 111:10, 1839–1846. (2021)    

Riffe, T.; Acosta, E.; Aburto, J. M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Altová, A.; Alustiza Galarza, A.; Basellini, U.; Bignami-Van Assche, S.; Breton, D.; Choi, E.; Cimentada, J.; De Armas, G.; Del Fava, E.; Delgado, A.; Diaconu, V.; Donzowa, J.; Dudel, C.; Fröhlich, A.; Gagnon, A.; Garcia-Crisóstomo, M.; Garcia-Guerrero, V. M.; González-Diaz, A.; Hecker, I.; Koba, D. E.; Kolobova, M.; Kühn, M.; Lépori, M.; Liu, C.; Lozer, A.; Manea, M.-E.; Marey, L.; Masum, M.; Mogi, R.; Monicolle, C.; Morwinsky, S.; Musizvingoza, R.; Myrskylä, M.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Nickel, M.; Nitsche, N.; Oksuzyan, A.; Oladele, S.; Olamijuwon, E.; Omodara, O.; Ouedraogo, S.; Paredes, M.; Pascariu, M. D.; Piriz, M.; Pollero, R.; Qanni, L.; Rehermann, F.; Ribeiro, F.; Rizzi, S.; Rowe, F.; Sarhan, A. R.; Sasson, I.; Shomron, E.; Shi, J.; Silva-Ramirez, R.; Strozza, C.; Torres, C.; Trias-Llimos, S.; Uchikoshi, F.; van Raalte, A. A.; Vazquez-Castillo, P.; Vilela, E.; Waqar, M. A.; Williams, I.; Zarulli, V.:

Data resource profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths

International Journal of Epidemiology 50:2, 390–390f. (2021)    

Smith-Greenaway, E.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Trinitapoli, J.; Zagheni, E.:

Global burden of maternal bereavement: indicators of the cumulative prevalence of child loss

BMJ Global Health 6:4, e004837–e004837. (2021)    

Williams, I.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Mortality change and its impact on child survival

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-001. (2021)    

Williams, I.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Song, X.; Caswell, H.:

DemoKin: an R package to implement demographic matrix kinship models

Software. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DemoKin/: CRAN. unpublished. (2021)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mason, C.; Zagheni, E.:

The “Sandwich Generation” revisited: global demographic drivers of care time demands

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-037. (2020)    

Nepomuceno, M. R.; Acosta, E.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Aburto, J. M.; Gagnon, A.; Turra, C. M.:

Besides population age-structure, health and other demographic factors can contribute to understanding the COVID-19 burden

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:25, 13881–13883. (2020)    

Riffe, T.; Acosta, E.; Aburto, J. M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Altová, A.; Bignami-Van Assche, S.; Breton, D.; Choi, E.; Cimentada, J.; De Armas, G.; Del Fava, E.; Delgado, A.; Diaconu, V.; Donzowa, J.; Dudel, C.; Fröhlich, A.; Gagnon, A.; Garcia Cristómo, M.; Garcia-Guerrero, V. M.; González-Díaz, A.; Hecker, I.; Koba, D. E.; Kolobova, M.; Kühn, M.; Liu, C.; Lozer, A.; Manea, M.-E.; Masum, M.; Mogi, R.; Morwinsky, S.; Musizvingoza, R.; Myrskylä, M.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Nickel, M.; Nitsche, N.; Oksuzyan, A.; Oladele, S.; Olamijuwon, E.; Omodara, O.; Ouedraogo, S.; Paredes, M.; Pascariu, M.; Piriz, M.; Pollero, R.; Rehermann, F.; Ribeiro, F.; Rizzi, S.; Rowe, F.; Sasson, I.; Shi, J.; Silva-Ramirez, R.; Strozza, C.; Torres, C.; Trias-Llimos, S.; Uchikoshi, F.; van Raalte, A. A.; Vazquez-Castillo, P.; Vilela, E.; Williams, I.; Zarulli, V.:

COVerAGE-DB: a database of age-structured COVID-19 cases and deaths

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-032. (2020)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Blood is thicker than bloodshed: a genealogical approach to reconstruct populations after armed conflicts

Demographic Research 40:23, 627–656. (2019)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Aref, S.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Grow, A.; Negraia, D. V.; Zagheni, E.:

Demography in the digital era: new data sources for population research

In: Smart statistics for smart applications : book of short papers SIS2019, 23–30. Pearson. (2019)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Chandrasekharan, E.; Chunara, R.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Hannak, A.; Interdonato, R.; Joseph, K.; Kalimeri, K.; Malik, M. M.; Mayer, K.; Mejova, Y.; Paolotti, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Reports of the workshops held at the 2019 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

AI Magazine 40:4, 78–82. (2019)

Leone, T.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Ghandour, R.; Coast, E.; Giacaman, R.:

Maternal and child access to care and intensity of conflict in the occupied Palestinian territory: a pseudo longitudinal analysis (2000–2014)

Conflict and Health 13:36, 1–15. (2019)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Beyond excess mortality: the demographic life of a Mayan community after a war of massacres

London: London School of Economics and Political Science. (2018)

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