Smits, Jeroen; Monden, Christiaan - In: Social Science & Medicine 68 (2009) 6, pp. 1114-1123
Inequality in the distribution of adult length of life - defined as age at death in the population aged 15 and over - is studied for virtually all countries of the world using a new database with over 9000 life tables covering a period of up to two centuries. The data reveal huge variation among...