Deaton and Lubotsky (2003) found that the robust positive relationship across American cities between mortality and …’s population that is black. Ash and Robinson (Ash, M., & Robinson D. Inequality, race, and mortality in US cities: a political and … inequality on mortality. …

The purpose of this paper is to describe trends in sex differences in mortality in young adulthood and in middle age … among African Americans and whites in the United States between 1960 and 1995. We examine trends in all-cause mortality and … estimate the contribution of leading causes of death to the change in the sex difference in mortality over time. Between 1960 …

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 … allow a time varying measurement of SES, health and behavior. Event-history-analysis is applied to analyze mortality …

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality … of event-history-analysis is used, and frailty models address mortality selection. A new method is developed to consider … systematic difference in the change of average frailty over age between social groups. SES differentials in mortality converge …

We examined the concordance of income inequality trends with 30-year US regional trends in cause-specific mortality and … 100-year trends in heart disease and infant mortality. The evidence suggests that any effects of income inequality on … causes of mortality shown here. …

The U.S. has experienced a resurgence of income inequality in the past decades. The evidence regarding the mortality … implications of this phenomenon has been mixed. This study employs a rarely used method in mortality research, quantile regression … (QR), to provide insight into the ongoing debate of whether income inequality is a determinant of mortality and to …

Existing research provides inconsistent evidence for a relationship between overweight and/or obesity and mortality …, and poorly studies the population heterogeneity with respect to the mortality consequence of overweight/obesity. This … study investigates how overweight and/or obesity affect mortality and how these effects may vary across sociodemographic …

Deaton and Lubotsky (2003) found that the robust positive relationship across American cities between mortality and …’s population that is black. Ash and Robinson (Ash, M., & Robinson D. Inequality, race, and mortality in US cities: a political and … inequality on mortality. …

inactivity, sleep duration) in shaping differential mortality among whites, blacks, and Hispanics. We use data from the 1990 … mortality through 2006. Our first aim examines whether unhealthy behaviors and perceived stress mediate race/ethnic disparities … in mortality. The black disadvantage in mortality, relative to whites, closes after adjusting for socioeconomic status …