This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident … differences have decreased for amount of driving, motor vehicle accidents mortality, and occupational accidents mortality. However …, for many types of accidents mortality, gender differences were stable or increased; these trends often resulted from the …

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. …

We evaluate the consistency of age-specific mortality patterns for older Americans using the Health Care Financing … compare the mortality curves across regions within race and sex groups, and we compare national mortality curves of white men …-specific mortality data at oldest ages. Both the period and cohort age at death data for whites in the Medicare EDB appear to be very …

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 … mortality rates. My results show that socioeconomic mortality differences are stable across ages whereas they clearly decline …