health status that preceded downward mobility or unemployment. This robustness suggests that selection effect alone may not …This research offers fresh evidence 1) on the contribution of social mobility to health differentials by proposing a … new link between downward mobility and health: downward mobility itself may have an immediate impact on health, above and …

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality … unknown. The data used for our analysis come from the US Health and Retirement Study (n=9376) and from the Danish Demographic … Database (Denmark’s population above age 58). They offer detailed information about SES and health information. The technique …

The relative income-health hypothesis postulates that income distribution is one of the key determinants of population … health. The discussion on the age and gender patterns of this association is still open. We test the relative income-health … male and female mortality up to age 15. For women the association vanishes at older ages, but for men persists up to age 50 …

Objective: Epigenetic inheritance has been suggested to be an important factor influencing mortality. We use historical … in response to predicted/perceived mortality. If yes, those growing in the predicted environment enjoy a phenotype …-environment-match which should lower mortality, whereas those growing in a non-predicted environment should have a higher mortality. Methods …

mortality is actually leveling o®. Based on this uncertainty, we study a mixture failure model, introduced by Finkelstein and …

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the … past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the … southern regions had the lowest. Today, this mortality pattern is reversed. In this paper, we study these long-term trends in …

This study examines the variation in mortality and mortality trends among different regions in India since the 1970s …. The Gini coefficient and dispersion measure of mortality confirm the convergence of mortality across the regions in India … mortality in children under the age of 15 years. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the contribution of both young and adult age …

associated with cohort’s later mortality. This may be because individual-level health is robust to early life conditions, or …-age mortality is not known. This paper studies how cohort-level mortality depends on shocks in the cohort’s early and later life … (period) conditions. I use cohort’s own mortality as a proxy for the early life conditions, and define shocks as deviations …