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A new method for correcting the underestimation of disabled life expectancy inherent in conventional methods: application to the oldest old in China

Zeng, Yi; Gu, Danan; Land, Kenneth C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2003

This article demonstrates that the widely used disabled life expectancies based on conventional methods are significantly underestimated due to assuming no functional status changes between age and death. We propose a new method to correct the bias and apply it to the longitudinal survey data of...

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Increasing excess mortality among non-married elderly people in developed countries

NNN1Valkonen, FFF1Tapani; NNN2Martikainen, FFF2Pekka; … - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 12, pp. 305-330

This article analyses changes in marital status differences in mortality from approximately 1970 to 1995 among men and women aged 65-74 in ten developed countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, Finland, France, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden). Data were obtained from the...

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Do socioeconomic mortality differences decrease with rising age?

Hoffmann, Rasmus - In: Demographic Research 13 (2005) 2, pp. 35-62

The impact of SES on mortality is an established finding in mortality research. I examine, whether this impact decreases with age. Most research finds evidence for this decrease but it is unknown whether the decline is due to mortality selection. My data come from the US-HRS Study and includes...

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Does the socioeconomic mortality gradient interact with age? Evidence from US survey data and Danish register data

Hoffmann, Rasmus - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality decrease with age. Most research confirms this decrease but the reasons for it and the role of unobserved heterogeneity are unknown. The data used for our analysis come from the US...

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Beyond the Kannisto-Thatcher Database on Old Age Mortality: an assessment of data quality at advanced ages

Jdanov, Dmitri A.; Jasilionis, Domantas; Soroko, Eugeny L. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

The old age population in developed countries has been increasing remarkably, yet internationally comparable high quality data on oldest-old mortality remain relatively scarce. The Kannisto-Thatcher Old Age Mortality Database (KTD) is a unique source providing uniformly recalculated old-age...

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Does the impact of socioeconomic status on mortality decrease with increasing age?

Hoffmann, Rasmus - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

The impact of SES on mortality is an established fact. I examine if this impact decreases with increasing age. Most research finds that it does so but it is unknown whether this decrease is due to mortality selection. The data I use come from the US-Health and Retirement Study, which surveyed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005227934

Happiness: before and after the kids

Myrskylä, Mikko; Margolis, Rachel - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

than men. These results, which are similar in Britain and Germany, suggest that childbearing increases parental happiness …

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The long-standing demographic East-West-divide in Germany

Klüsener, Sebastian; Goldstein, Joshua R. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

part of Germany and western Germany. Although the demography of these two regions has converged with respect to mortality … and overall fertility levels, non-marital births are the norm in eastern Germany but the exception in western Germany. A … number of explanations, stemming from the policy and socio-economic conditions of eastern and western Germany in recent …

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Economic uncertainty and family dynamics in Europe (Introduction to special issue of Demographic Research)

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar; Pailhé, Ariane - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

Germany, the U.K., France, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and Israel. …

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The fertility behaviour of East to West German migrants

Vatterrott, Anja - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

In the twenty years since the reunification of Germany, we have seen a convergence of total fertility rates in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251323

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