The ratio (RMR) is the standard measure of sex differentials in mortality. It is commonly known that the RMR was historically small and increased throughout the 20th century. However, numerical properties might account for the trend in the RMR rather than sex differences in risk factors. In this...

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As part of developing the new, so-called pace-shape framework of aging, where pace is measured by life-expectancy, in this paper we systematically investigate how perturbations in mortality affect life-expectancy.