Prof. Isaac Sasson

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin 2014

Isaac Sasson is Associate Professor of Sociology, Head of the B.I. and Lucille Cohen Institute for Public Opinion Research, Head of the Demography Research Lab, and member of the Herczeg Institute on Aging at Tel Aviv University. He holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and, prior to joining Tel Aviv University, was Postdoctoral Fellow in Population Health at the London School of Economics. Prof. Sasson's research and teaching interests include demography, health inequalities, and quantitative research methods. His work has been published in leading journals including Science, JAMA, Demography, and Population and Development Review.

Demography, population health, social stratification and inequality, quantitative research methods

Sasson, Isaac. (2025). A new research agenda for social inequalities in mortality: Challenges and open questions. Population and Development Review (forthcoming).

Sasson, Isaac, and Alexander Weinreb. (2024). Israel as a demographic anomaly: Between Europe and the Middle East. Strategic Assessment: A Multidisciplinary Journal on National Security, 27(2): 70–84.

Permanyer, Iñaki, Isaac Sasson, and Francisco Villavicencio. (2023). Group- and individual-based approaches to health inequality: Towards an integration. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 186(2): 217–240.

Sasson, Isaac (2021). Age and COVID-19 mortality: A comparison of Gompertz doubling time across countries and causes of death. Demographic Research, 44: 379–396.

Sasson, Isaac, and Ronen Shamir (2020). The 1931 Census of Palestine and the Statistical (Un)making of an Arab Landless Class. Middle Eastern Studies 56(2): 239–256.

Sasson, Isaac, and Mark D. Hayward (2019). Association Between Educational Attainment and Causes of Death Among White and Black US Adults, 2010–2017. JAMA 322(8): 756–763.

van Raalte, Alyson A., Isaac Sasson, and Pekka Martikainen (2018). The Case for Monitoring Life-span Inequality. Science 362(6418): 1002–4.

Sasson, Isaac, and Alexander Weinreb (2017). Land Cover Change and Fertility in West-Central Africa: Rural Livelihoods and the Vicious Circle Model. Population and Environment 38(4):345–68.

Cetorelli, Valeria, Isaac Sasson, Nazar Shabila, and Gilbert Burnham (2017). Mortality and Kidnapping Estimates for the Yazidi Population in the Area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A Retrospective Household Survey. PLOS Medicine 14(5): e1002297.

Sasson, Isaac (2016). Diverging Trends in Cause-Specific Mortality and Life Years Lost by Educational Attainment: Evidence from United States Vital Statistics Data, 1990-2010. PLOS ONE 11(10): e0163412.

Sasson, Isaac (2016). Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment: United States, 1990-2010. Demography 53(2):269-93.

Sasson, Isaac, and Debra J. Umberson (2014). Widowhood and Depression: New Light on Gender Differences, Selection, and Psychological Adjustment. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 69(1):135-45.