tempo under changing fertility and mortality that share a synthetic cohort interpretation with the adjusted measure of … quantum. I stress similarities between the results for fertility and mortality, particularly in terms of mean age of … childbearing and mean age at death, but also note some important distinctions. I conclude that the fertility adjustments can help …

Humans, and many other species, suffer senescence: mortality increases and fertility declines with adult age. Some … species, however, enjoy sustenance: mortality and fertility remain constant. Here we develop simple but general evolutionary …

models. As expected from previous studies of mortality differences, the rate of retirement is lower among Swedish …The purpose of this paper is to study very early retirement as an indicator for poor health, with focus on a comparison …-speaking males have a risk of very early retirement that is about 25 per cent lower than that of Finnish-speaking males. Among …

functional forms of CVD-related biomarkers for all-cause and CVD mortality in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).Methods: We … profiles in the sample. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) with information on four collected biomarkers …-year mortality follow-up period.Results: The results show that the additive index has comparatively high predictive power, relative …