statistically significant and strong positive effect on a woman’s age at first marriage; the effect remaining robust in the … of birth are also significantly associated with age at first marriage. …

rates after age 97 for both males and females. Because reports of age seem to be serviceably reliable up to age 100 and … perhaps age 105 in China, we think that this convergence may be mainly due to mortality selection in the heterogeneous Chinese … population. We show that in China, as in developed countries, the rate of increase in mortality with age decelerates at very old …