mortality rates as indicators for the health status and analyse the convergence/divergence of overall mortality for (i) the … whole population, for (ii) females, for (iii) males and for (iv) the gender gap in overall mortality. Convergence … health status is an important dimension. In the following paper we focus on the question whether the health status between …

are also confirmed by our Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition. -- mortality ; gender mortality gap ; life expectancy ; Austria …Gender inequalities in mortality/life expectancy have been a major area of research in the social sciences since the … shed some light on two related questions: (i) Which socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality? (ii) Are …

, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

on the gender-specific health outcome of respondents aged 60+ at follow-up over a period of 13 years (for western Germany …-up in order to control for selection effects to the health outcome. The analysis was separated by sex to account for gender … earlier presence of diseases and the health condition at follow-up. Gender differences in health outcomes are partly explained …