Death is a unifying event for all mankind, but not everybody is equally affected. The mortality differential by socio … regions with unusual high or low mortality and model external causes of mortality variation. Furthermore, mortality data is … that are able to capture the spatial structure of the data. An analysis of all-cause mortality of German citizen between …

This dissertation contains two empirical papers on income and premature mortality, and one methodological paper that … concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada … and the USAChapter 4 examines the effects of income level and income drops on all-cause mortality in Canada and the United …