the highest-cost categories for multiple years; the high mortality rates of people who use medical services heavily …

Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality … blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for … dominant role. We show that the US has had significantly faster declines in mortality from these two diseases than comparison …

discussion of dependency ratios. Two alternative measures of age are explored: mortality risk and remaining life expectancy. With …. However, the fraction of the population that is above a mortality rate that corresponds to 65+ today will grow by only 20 … percent. Needless to say, the aging of the society is a lot less dramatic with the alternative mortality-based age measures …

We estimate the long-term effects of experiencing high levels of job demands on the mortality and aging of CEOs. The … and death for 1,605 CEOs of large, publicly-listed U.S. firms, we estimate the resulting changes in mortality. The hazard …

differences in mortality among the elderly. A secondary goal is to evaluate the strength of evidence in support of the excess … risks of mortality associated with widowhood, once we are able to eliminate or mitigate many of the limitations experienced …