the age model outperforms the estimated benchmarks; i.e. two autoregressive models, an ARIMA and the 2 per cent forecast …

Are mortality and life expectancy differences by socioeconomic groups increasing in the United States? Using a unique … by lifetime earnings for the 1983 to 2003 period. The results indicate a consistent increase in mortality differentials … point to almost five decades of increasing differential mortality in the United States. …

We examine the role of declining mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the 20th century. We … of death. In an environment in which mortality is high, an individual who saved up for retirement would face a high risk …. As mortality falls, however, it becomes optimal to plan, and save for, retirement. We simulate our model using actual …

mortality. Our epidemiological analysis uses geographical information (e.g., municipalities) and negative binomial regression to … assess whether both ambient PM2.5 concentration and excess mortality have a similar spatial distribution. Our analysis … suggests a positive association of ambient PM2.5 concentration on excess mortality in Northern Italy related to the COVID-19 …

The most popular approach to modelling and forecasting mortality rates is the model of Lee and Carter (Modeling and … Forecasting U. S. Mortality, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 87, 659–671, 1992). The popularity of the model …