incentives. We study how two changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2003/04 and 2004/05 have affected mortality during the turns …

incentives. We study how two changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2003/04 and 2004/05 have affected mortality during the turns …

Gender inequalities in mortality/life expectancy have been a major area of research in the social sciences since the … shed some light on two related questions: (i) Which socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality? (ii) Are … male and female mortality rates determined by different socioeconomic factors and in different shapes? We use aggregated …

/diverged in the time period 1969 - 2004 in Austria. We use age standardized mortality rates as indicators for the health status … and analyze the convergence/divergence of overall mortality for (i) the whole population, (ii) females, (iii) males and … (iv) the gender gap in overall mortality. Convergence/Divergence is studied by applying different concepts of cross …

Rural residents have higher rates of age-adjusted mortality, disability, and chronic disease than their urban … counterparts, though mortality and disability rates vary more by region than by metro status. Contributing negatively to the health …

changes in the pattern of morbidity and mortality which can be assessed by simple measures of both morbidity and mortality. In … this study we used indicators of mortality (General mortality rates for the elderly and rates by age groups) for the … decrease of mortality rates of the elderly among the younger men and women for the most represented causes of death, (2) most …

liabilities, with underestimates of likely future changes in mortality. The paper suggests improved disclosure together with the …