Why are there differences in life expectancies among various demographic groups? Why have these changes in life expectancies occurred? Many reasons are given in the popular and more scholarly literatures. Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults considers an integrated...

This chapter discusses the questions to be asked of the compiled mortality and morbidity data, paying particular attention to those data sources that are readily available and to those methods that have proven or may prove themselves particularly fruitful. Differential rates of infant mortality...

Pensions and age specific death rates are intertwined in several ways. Pensions provide a mechanism to remove the uncertainty about date of death from consumption planning. Age specific death rates determine the cost and value of pensions. In this paper, we use the Retirement History Survey to...