Shiro Furuya

Shiro Furuya

David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard

Shiro Furuya

I am a sociologist and demographer with a keen interst in interdisciplinary approaches. I use demographic techniques, causal inference, and biostatistics to describe and explain inequalities.

Appointments

Education

Selected Publications

  • Furuya, Shiro, and Jason M. Fletcher. 2024. “Retirement Makes You Old? Causal Effect of Retirement on Biological Age.” Demography 61(3):901-931. doi:10.1215/00703370-11380637.

  • Furuya, Shiro, Fengyi Zheng, Qiongshi Lu, and Jason M. Fletcher. 2024. “Separating Scarring Effect and Selection of Early Life Exposures with Genetic Data.” Demography 61(2):363-392. doi:10.1215/00703370-11239766.

  • Furuya, Shiro, Jihua Liu, Zhongxuan Sun, Qiongshi Lu, and Jason M. Fletcher. 2023. “The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the UK.” Demography 60(6):1649-1664. doi:10.1215/00703370-11054960.

  • Furuya, Shiro, Jihua Liu, Zhongxuan Sun, Qiongshi Lu, and Jason M. Fletcher. 2023. “Understanding Internal Migration: A Research Note Providing an Assessment of Migration Selection with Genetic Data.” Demography 60(6):1631-1648. doi:10.1215/00703370-11053145.

  • Furuya, Shiro, and Jia Wang. 2023. “The Long Shadow: Early-Life Adversity and Later-Life Loneliness in the United States.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78(2):370-382. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbac164.

  • Wu, Yuchang, Shiro Furuya, Zihang Wang, Jenna E. Nobles, Jason M. Fletcher, and Qiongshi Lu. 2022. “GWAS on Birth Year Infant Mortality Rates Provides Evidences of Recent Natural Selection.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(12). doi:10.1073/pnas.2117312119

For the comprehensive list of publications, please find my cv here.

Teaching

  • Instructor
    • Soc 360 Statistical for Sociologists I (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 2022)
  • Teaching Assistant
    • Soc 361 Statistical for Sociologists II (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2021)