. Conclusions -- Compared with results from other countries, trends in educational mortality differentials seem to be rather …Background -- Many studies for European populations found an increase in socio-economic mortality differentials during … certificates, we computed age and education specific death rates. We calculate life expectancies at age 35 by educational level as …

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 … population health trends cannot be reduced to simple processes that operate across all contexts and in all time periods. If …

This paper presents estimates of changes in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality between the 1980s and the 1990s in … nine European countries. The best available evidence shows that relative inequalities in mortality generally widened, while … accurate and detailed assessment of change in inequalities in mortality. These illustrations stressed the importance of …

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 …

We contribute to understanding the relationship of education to fertility by disentangling educational fertility … that can handle under-dispersion. Results show that education has a strong, direct, consistent association with fertility …, net of industry and occupation, and that fertility differences across countries primarily reflect compositional and …

negative or neutral status-fertility relation. Those with high income/wealth or high occupation/social class switch from having … relatively many to fewer or the same number of children as others. Education, however, depresses fertility for as long as this …

the LRC cohort, mortality of men with high education is close to the city average for Helsinki and Oslo. Absolute inter … education group should be addressed by adequate health policies. Trends in inequalities in health and their determinants require …Background: Prior estimates of the Russian mortality by socio-demographic group revealed significant differentials …

an important impact on estimates of mortality and life expectancy. In this paper, we start by reviewing Vallin’s work … effects of war. The results indicate that estimates currently available from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) greatly … underestimate period mortality during wartime among all Italian males, and may even underestimate mortality among civilian males …

In this paper, we use the multiple cause-of-death approach to compare the mortality profiles of France and Italy in …

that work and family life are more compatible in France, where highly educated women can turn their education more often …We compare second birth risks in France and western Germany using data from the Family and Fertility Survey. Second … birth risks are higher for highly educated women than for women with lower education in both countries. In western Germany …