Casey Flather Breen

Casey Flather Breen

Assistant Professor

University of Texas at Austin

About

I am a demographer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, affiliated with the Population Research Center and the Center for Aging and Population Studies. I completed a Ph.D. in Demography and an M.A. in Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford.

My research develops and applies computational and demographic methods to examine questions in population health and mortality. My work has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Demography, American Journal of Epidemiology, and Population and Development Review, among other outlets.

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Interests

  • Social Networks
  • Health and Mortality Disparities
  • Computational Social Science

Education

  • PhD, Demography, 2023

    UC Berkeley

  • MA, Biostatistics, 2021

    UC Berkeley

  • BA, Economics, 2016

    Pomona College

Recent News

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Oct. 2025: New paper in PNAS: Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data

Aug. 2025: I am delighted to have the faculty at UT-Austin, where I am affiliated with their Population Research Center and Center on Aging and Population Sciences.

May 2025: I had a enjoyed visiting the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock. I presented some recent work on measuring digital inequality [Slides] and led a workshop on the CenSoc project [Slides].