Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults : Some Methodological Approaches and Substantive Analyses

by Jere R. Behrman, Robin C. Sickles, Paul Taubman

Why are there differences in life expectancies among various demographic groups? Why have these changes in life expectancies occurred? Many reasons are given in the popular and more scholarly literatures. Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults considers an integrated approach to investigating determinants of and correlates of mortality in the United States - integrating modeling, micro data, and modern econometric techniques. A number of examples of applications are included, with some explorations of the robustness of the results under alternative assumptions. The basic purpose of this text is to increase our knowledge of mortality and to illustrate how such an integrated approach can further our knowledge of mortality and related phenomena

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Year of publication:	1998
Authors:	Behrman, Jere R. ; Sickles, Robin C. ; Taubman, Paul J.
Publisher:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
Subject:	Sterblichkeit \| Mortality \| Schätztheorie \| Estimation theory \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Statistische Methode \| Statistical method
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (XV, 186 p) online resource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	1 Introduction1.1 General Categories of Causes of Differential Life Expectancies among Groups and Over Time: Genetics, Environment, and Behaviors -- 1.2 Why are the Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death of Interest? -- 1.3 Concerns and Results of This Book -- 1.4 Methodology -- 1.5 Organization of This Book -- 2 The optimal choice of health and mortality -- 2.1 Previous Models -- 2.2 The Retirement History Survey and Variable Construction -- 2.3 New Estimates of Utility and Health Production Parameters -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Tables -- 3 Statistical techniques for estimation of hazard functions -- 3.1 Introduction to Hazard Models -- 3.2 Estimation of Survival Hazard Models with Heterogeneity -- 3.3 Monte Carlo Results -- Tables -- 4 Mortality hazard estimates from the dorn sample: smoking, occupational risks, birth cohort, functional form and frailty -- 4.1 Previous Mortality Studies -- 4.2 The Dorn Sample -- 4.3 Robustness of Estimates Over Time, Functional Form, and with Unobserved Heterogeneity -- 4.4 More Detailed Cohort Effects -- 4.5 Maximum Penalized Likelihood Estimators -- 4.6 Starting the Analysis Later -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Tables -- Figures -- 5 Mortality hazard estimates from the retirement history survey: education, pensions, and marital status and black-white and gender differences -- 5.1 Mortality and Hazard Function Results for Men -- 5.2 Black-White Mortality Inequalities for Males -- 5.3 Mortality Hazard Model for Women -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Tables -- Figures -- 6 Private rates of return on social security and their relation to mortality for groups defined by socioeconomic characteristics -- 6.1 Prior Research on Returns to Social Security System -- 6.2 Estimated Rates of Returns to Investments in Social Security -- 6.3 Analysis of RHS Data -- 6.4 Differences by Socioeconomic Characteristics -- 6.5 Results from Two Cohorts in the PSID -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Appendix 6.A Procedures Used for Calculating Mortality Adjusted Rates of Return from Social Security from RHS-SSA Data -- Tables -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Author Index.
ISBN:	978-94-011-4393-6 ; 978-94-010-5887-2
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-94-011-4393-6 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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