Franz Schwarz
Info
Research Group: Demography of Austria
Job Title: Research Scientist
Phone: +43 1 515 81 7720
Fax: +43 1 515 81 7730
E-mail: franz.schwarz@oeaw.ac.at
Education
- PhD in Statistics with emphasis on Epidemiology and Biometrics, University of Vienna. Awarded with distinction (cum laude) in 2006
- Research training at the University of Michigan, USA, and the International Max Planck Research School for Demography in Rostock, Germany
- Master in Statistics, University of Linz, Austria (2001)
Professional Career
- Research scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 02/2004)
- Guest researcher and PhD Student at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Department of Survival and Longevity, Rostock, Germany (10/2003 – 02/2004)
- Research scientist and statistician at the Austrian Institute for Family Studies, Socioeconomic Research Department, Vienna, Austria (02/2002 – 09/2003)
Research Interests
- Epidemiology
- Incidence, distribution, trends and determinants of diseases and causes of death
- Health damaging behaviours and substance abuse
- Health care utilization and preventive health measures
- Healthy life expectancy
- Medical topics
- Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- Methodological and technological issues
- Indicators for health and well-being
- Advances in survival analysis
- Development of new functions for statistical and epidemiological analyses with the “R language and environment for statistical computing and graphics”
Projects
- Socioeconomic disparities in mortality, health and health damaging behaviours
- SHARE: Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe
Selected Publications
- Schwarz, Franz. 2006. Behavioral explanations for educational disparities in health and mortality in Austria. VID Working Paper 03/2006. Vienna Institute of Demography.
- Schwarz, Franz. 2006.The Contributions of Diseases to Increasing Educational Mortality Differential in Austria. VID Working Paper 02/2006. Vienna Institute of Demography.
- Schwarz, Franz. 2006. Cause-specific contributions to the educational differentials in mortality in Austria. Vienna Institute of Demography.
- Schwarz, Franz. 2005. Für ein langes Leben ist Bildung wichtiger denn je: Sterberaten von hoch und niedrig gebildeten Österreichern gehen weiter auseinanander. Demografische Forschung aus erster Hand 4.
- Schwarz, Franz. 2005. Widening educational inequalities in mortality: An analysis for Austria with international comparisons. VID Working Paper 07/2005. Vienna Institute of Demography.
- Schwarz, Franz. 2004. Analysis of Inequalities in Waiting Time at the Visit to the Physician using Regression Modeling for Duration Data. VID Working Paper 04/2004. Vienna Institute of Demography.
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