This research offers fresh evidence 1) on the contribution of social mobility to health differentials by proposing a … new link between downward mobility and health: downward mobility itself may have an immediate impact on health, above and … beyond selection, origin or destination effects, and 2) on causes behind the mortality crisis in Russia by testing an …

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality … unknown. The data used for our analysis come from the US Health and Retirement Study (n=9376) and from the Danish Demographic … Database (Denmark’s population above age 58). They offer detailed information about SES and health information. The technique …

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 … southern regions had the lowest. Today, this mortality pattern is reversed. In this paper, we study these long-term trends in …

This study examines the variation in mortality and mortality trends among different regions in India since the 1970s …. The Gini coefficient and dispersion measure of mortality confirm the convergence of mortality across the regions in India … mortality in children under the age of 15 years. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the contribution of both young and adult age …

fertility, migration, and mortality. Both disciplines share a common research object, namely human populations, and they focus …

The impact of SES on mortality is an established fact. I examine if this impact decreases with increasing age. Most … research finds that it does so but it is unknown whether this decrease is due to mortality selection. The data I use come from … the US-Health and Retirement Study, which surveyed 9376 persons aged 59 and over from 1992 to 2000. The variables allow …

Since gender-specific mortality differences are known a great deal of research has been conducted on this subject. The … resulting hypotheses for explaining male excess mortality can be sub-divided into two basic categories: the biological approach …). It has been proven impossible to explain the observed trends in mortality differences between women and men by relying …