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

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 …

beyond selection, origin or destination effects, and 2) on causes behind the mortality crisis in Russia by testing an …. Using RLMS data and Cox proportional hazard models, the results demonstrate that men were at greater risk of mortality when … they experienced downward mobility, relative to men who did not. Women’s mortality did not appear to be linked to downward …

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 … mortality rates. My results show that socioeconomic mortality differences are stable across ages whereas they clearly decline …

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 …

The present study investigates the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and mortality risk, using a large …. Initially, we intended to contribute to the understanding of system relations between SWB, mortality risk, and unobserved … heterogeneity in the mortality equation prevents us from employing this model. Given this limitation, the study examines three …