Arun S Hendi, PhD

Arun Hendi was a 2017-2018 RCMAR Scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center. He is also a demographer and research scientist at the USC Center for Economic and Social Research. His RCMAR project title was Social Determinants of the Narrowing Black-White Life Expectancy Gap

Recent Work

The Implications of Changing Education Distributions for Life Expectancy Gradients

Recent research has proposed that shifting education distributions across cohorts are influencing estimates of educational gradients in mortality.
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- Research
- Journal Articles
Recent Trends in Life Expectancy Across High Income Countries: Retrospective Observational Study

Jessica Ho and Arun Hendi assessed whether declines in life expectancy occurred in other high income countries during 2014-16, the main age groups and causes of death contributing to these declines, and the extent to which these declines were driven by shared or differing factors across countries.
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Immigration and the Health of Black Children

Black children with foreign-born mothers are significantly healthier than those with U.S.-born mothers. New evidence suggests mothers’ time in the U.S. reduces this health advantage.

By Arun S Hendi, PhD
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- Evidence Base

Arun S Hendi, PhD's Bio

Recent Work

The Implications of Changing Education Distributions for Life Expectancy Gradients

Recent Trends in Life Expectancy Across High Income Countries: Retrospective Observational Study

Immigration and the Health of Black Children