southern regions had the lowest. Today, this mortality pattern is reversed. In this paper, we study these long-term trends in …While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the … past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the …

variations in cause-specific mortality, the negative general trends observed since 1965, and the wide fluctuations of the last …This paper performs a systematic analysis of all currently available Russian data on mortality by region, census year … reliable mortality indicators by geographic units using census data for 1970, 1979, 1989, and micro-census data for 1994, and …

This study is a first attempt to produce reliable estimates of mortality in Georgia and Armenia in the 1990s. Official … statistics registered a decrease in mortality over the 1990s in spite of local wars, mass flows of refugees, and severe economic … of vital events resulted in a greater under-registration of deaths than in Armenia. Modified populations, mortality and …

Okinawa, in order to explain the presence of large numbers of centenarians. The mortality crossover obtained by comparing … mortality rates in Okinawa and Japan could be attributed either to different behavior of the generations born before and after …

I study how shocks in cohort-level early life conditions, as represented by deviations from trend in mortality before … age 5, affect later mortality. I use data for six European countries and find that shocks that increase infant mortality … other countries. Shocks that increase mortality at ages 1-5 increase life expectancy between ages 5-30 and compress the …