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

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 9376 persons aged 59 and over from 1992 to 2000. The variables allow …

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 … sources. According to the results there has been a trend towards increasing excess mortality among single men compared to …

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 mortality data for 35 countries. Our study addresses a number of data … Kannisto, we apply the same set of measures. This allows us to identify dubious or irregular mortality patterns. Deviations …

experienced mortality compression. These differences were caused by diverging trends in early adult mortality: all occupational … classes experienced similar trends in lifespan variation at older ages, but variation in early adult mortality increased for … higher early adult mortality from external causes. These results suggest that mortality compression can be compatible with …

clearly underrepresented in differential mortality studies. Second, we are able to use a novel measure of lifetime earnings as …