disparity, but averting a late death increases inequality in lifespans. …

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 …

Over the second half of the 20th century a number of divergences and convergences of mortality schedules were observed … across the world. Some of these developments remain incompletely understood. In recent overviews of old-age female mortality … Development Review) describe two contrasting patterns of mortality change between the mid-1980s and the end of the 20th century: a …

We test the effects of early life exposure to disease on later health by looking for differences in late-life mortality … in cohorts born around the 1918-1919 flu pandemic using data from the Human Mortality Database for 24 countries. After … controlling for age, period, and sex effects, residual mortality rates did not differ systematically for flu cohorts relative to …