Kenneth W. Wachter

University of California, Berkeley — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management(26), Historical Economic and Social Studies(19), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms(14), Census and Population Estimation(14), demographic modeling and climate adaptation(11)

Publications174 total

12. Genetic Evolutionary Demography
Open Book Publishers·2024Open Access
Reply to Dushoff et al. and Pifarré i Arolas et al.: Age prioritization for COVID-19 vaccination does save lives and years of life
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Vaccinating the oldest against COVID-19 saves both the most lives and most years of life
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2021· 105 citedOpen Access
On Negative Heritability and Negative Estimates of Heritability
Genetics·2020· 46 citedOpen Access
Hypothetical errors and plateaus: A response to Newman
PLoS Biology·2018· 11 citedOpen Access
Response to Comment on “The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers”
Science·2018· 4 cited
The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers
Science·2018· 258 citedOpen Access
Statistical properties of simple random-effects models for genetic heritability
Electronic Journal of Statistics·2018· 11 citedOpen Access
On Negative Heritability and Negative Estimates of Heritability
2017· 10 citedOpen Access
Statistical properties of simple random-effects models for genetic heritability
2016· 2 citedOpen Access
Population Heterogeneity in the Spotlight of Biodemography
Oxford University Press eBooks·2015· 2 cited
Frontmatter
Harvard University Press eBooks·2014Open Access
Historical Studies, Statistics in
Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online·2014
Alleles, Mortality Schedules, and the Evolutionary Theory of Senescence
2014· 4 cited
Evolutionary shaping of demographic schedules
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2014· 40 citedOpen Access
Essential Demographic Methods
Harvard University Press eBooks·2014· 120 cited
The age-specific force of natural selection and biodemographic walls of death
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2013· 64 citedOpen Access
A mutation-selection model with recombination for general genotypes
2013
Editorial for the Special Issue: Biodemographic determinants of lifespan
Experimental Gerontology·2012
A Mutation-Selection Model with Recombination for General Genotypes
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society·2012· 9 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Roderick Floud(5), David Steinsaltz(5), E. A. Hammel(5), Caleb E. Finch(3), Steven N. Evans(3), Annabel Gregory(2), Richard H. Steckel(2), John Bongaarts(2), Thomas K. Burch(2), Joshua R. Goldstein(2), James Trussell(2), Peter Laslett(2), Peter J. Bickel(1), Kjell A. Doksum(1), G. R. Merriam(1), Elisabetta Barbi(1), Francesco Lagona(1), Marco Marsili(1), James W. Vaupel(1), Robert W. Fogel(1)