This briefing is about the significant fatalities and economic losses from natural hazards between 1980 and 2023. It also examines the widening insurance protection gap, includes fresh data on six Western Balkan countries and insights to complement the relevant annual indicator....

Explaining the dynamics of contemporary authoritarian regimes requires understanding how ordinary citizens in such regimes form political attitudes and act on them. What makes people support authoritarian leaders? How do people living under autocratic rule react to signals of its declining publi...

This manual provides the guidelines for data providers when transmitting data to Eurostat on Causes of Death (COD) in the statistical collection with the same name. The manual covers both the mandatory and voluntary data collection. This is not a legally binding document but is intended as an ai...

In my doctoral dissertation, I explore why the discourse of death is so central to the ideology of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an avowedly Marxist organization. I examine how Kurdish society, deeply repressed and suffering from ontological insecurity, develops a collective desire for sur...

This manual provides the guidelines for data providers when transmitting data to Eurostat on Causes of Death (COD) in the statistical collection with the same name. The manual covers both the mandatory and voluntary data collection. This is not a legally binding document but is intended as an ai...

This dissertation examines kinship loss, its impact on socioeconomic trajectories, and kinship composition in Sweden through three empirical studies. Chapter 2 sheds light on the labor market implications of sibling bereavement, documenting an 8% reduction in survivors' gross earnings. This find...