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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 727–739.
Published: 01 November 2003
... ages (Alpert et al. 1999). Second, the means that have been most commonly used to determine whether a report of exceptional longevity is correct the corroboration of age on the basis of an official registration of birth is, with the exception of a few states and local areas, not available because...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 673–691.
Published: 01 August 2008
... importance of these factors is, however, unknown. In addition, determinants of mortality might act differently at old ages than at young ages, challenging conventional wisdom that extrapolates to old ages what has been observed for younger ages. For example, Okinawa displays exceptional longev- ity even...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1317–1346.
Published: 27 September 2011
.... Previous studies have reported positive, negative, and null effects of retirement on subsequent longevity and mortality hazard, but inconsistent findings are difficult to resolve because (1) nearly all data confound retirement with unemployment of older workers, and often, (2) endogeneity bias is rarely...
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View articletitled, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: The Effect of Retirement on Subsequent Mortality of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1801–2006
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 665–677.
Published: 18 January 2019
....), Exceptional longevity: From prehistory to the present (Odense Monographs on Population Aging, Vol. 2 , pp. 77 – 89 ). Odense, Denmark : Odense University Press . Vijg , J. , & Le Bourg , E. ( 2017 ). Aging and the inevitable limit to human life span . Gerontology , 63 , 432 – 434...
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View articletitled, A Cohort Comparison of Lifespan After Age 100 in Denmark and Sweden: Are Only the Oldest Getting Older?
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 243–258.
Published: 01 May 2005
... ). The Emergence and Proliferation of Centenarians . In B. Jeune , & J.W. Vaupel (Eds.), Exceptional Longevity: From Prehistory to the Present (pp. 109-16 – 109-16 ). Odense, Denmark : Odense University Press . Vaupel , J.W. , Manton , K.G. , & Stallard , E. ( 1979...
View articletitled, Three dimensions of the survival curve: horizontalization, verticalization, and <span class="search-highlight">longevity</span> extension
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 17–30.
Published: 01 February 1997
..., Genes, and Aging . Science , 273 , 54 – 59 . Jeune, B. and J.W. Vaupel. Forthcoming. Exceptional Longevity . Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press. Jones S. , Martin R. , & Pilbeam D. ( 1992 ). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution . Cambridge : Cambridge...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 475–495.
Published: 01 November 1999
... , & L. Hayflick (Eds.), Handbook of the Biology of Aging (pp. 513 – 35 ). New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold . Vaupel , J.W. , & Jeune , B. ( 1995 ). The Emergence and Proliferation of Centenarians . In B. Jeune , & J.W. Vaupel (Eds.), Exceptional Longevity...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2021–2049.
Published: 02 November 2015
... of exceptional longevity: Early-life and mid-life predictors of human longevity . Biodemography and Social Biology , 58 , 14 – 39 . 10.1080/19485565.2012.666121 . Geronimus , A. T. ( 1992 ). The weathering hypothesis and the health of African-American women and infants: Evidence and speculations...
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View articletitled, Reproductive History and Later-Life Comorbidity Trajectories: A Medicare-Linked Cohort Study From the Utah Population Database
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for article titled, Reproductive History and Later-Life Comorbidity Trajectories: A Medicare-Linked Cohort Study From the Utah Population Database
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2075–2102.
Published: 13 November 2014
...-related variables, but it may also be due to an increase in the selection of long-lived individuals into marriage and nonsmoking. The estimated longevity differences have all been increasing over time with the exception of nonfinancial income. In particular, the educational difference increased by 1.7...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1829–1854.
Published: 21 September 2018
...Brigitte Dormont; Anne-Laure Samson; Marc Fleurbaey; Stéphane Luchini; Erik Schokkaert Abstract This article presents an assessment of individual uncertainty about longevity. A survey performed on 3,331 French people enables us to record several survival probabilities per individual. On this basis...
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 497–518.
Published: 01 August 2007
... to the oldest-old ages. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2007 2007 Childhood Condition Religious Attendance Coef Cients Early Life Condition Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dem...
View articletitled, The association of childhood socioeconomic conditions with healthy <span class="search-highlight">longevity</span> at the oldest-old ages in China
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for article titled, The association of childhood socioeconomic conditions with healthy <span class="search-highlight">longevity</span> at the oldest-old ages in China
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 277–287.
Published: 01 May 1988
..., the positive square root of the ,2 values. Consequently, there is al- ways some direct relationship between fathers' and sons' longevity. This relationship, however, is weak, even though in all of the models except the last, the correlation between fathers' and sons' frailties is 1.0. Discussion The results...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 629–652.
Published: 01 April 2022
... leading to drastic improvements in living standards during adulthood and older age. However, the implications of life course socioeconomic status (SES) trajectories for healthy longevity in later life have not been systematically studied in China. We utilize data from the China Health and Retirement...
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View articletitled, Life Course Socioeconomic Status and Healthy <span class="search-highlight">Longevity</span> in China
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 785–806.
Published: 01 November 2007
...: The Evolutionary Signi cance of the Second Half of Female Life (pp. 59 – 80 ). New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Gavrilova N.S. , Gavrilov L.A. , Semyonova V.G. , & Evdokushkina G.N. ( 2004 ). Does Exceptional Human Longevity Come With a High Cost of Infertility...
View articletitled, Widowhood, family size, and post-reproductive Mortality: a comparative Analysis of three populations in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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for article titled, Widowhood, family size, and post-reproductive Mortality: a comparative Analysis of three populations in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 67–78.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Kevin Dowd; David Blake; Andrew J.G. Cairns Abstract This article uses longevity fan charts to represent the uncertainty in projections of future life expectancy. These fan charts are based on a mortality model calibrated on mortality data for English and Welsh males. The fan charts indicate strong...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 819–840.
Published: 04 May 2012
...Dustin C. Brown; Mark D. Hayward; Jennifer Karas Montez; Robert A. Hummer; Chi-Tsun Chiu; Mira M. Hidajat Abstract Recent studies of old-age mortality trends assess whether longevity improvements over time are linked to increasing compression of mortality at advanced ages. The historical backdrop...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1755–1773.
Published: 03 October 2014
... on six industrialized countries—namely, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, and Japan—whose mortality dynamics are often investigated in the literature and whose pension systems are exposed to increasing longevity risk. Annual death rates from 1950 to 2007...
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View articletitled, Trends in Mortality Decrease and Economic Growth
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1615–1640.
Published: 17 September 2013
... perturbation analysis is available, our understanding of any index is incomplete. Indices of variation in longevity are no exception, but no general perturbation theory is available. The patterns of sensitivity and elasticity of each index will reveal whether the correlations among the values...
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View articletitled, Perturbation Analysis of Indices of Lifespan Variability
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 187–206.
Published: 01 February 2022
...). For both female and male Italians, the negative gap in e p † reflects the above-average longevity when e 0 , p is used; the positive gap in CAL † reflects the lower levels of CAL than the average. However, there are exceptions to this association, such as in England and Wales...
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View articletitled, The Cross-sectional Average Inequality in Lifespan (CAL † ): A Lifespan Variation Measure That Reflects the Mortality Histories of Cohorts
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2045–2070.
Published: 15 October 2018
... and declining within-group variability might have been the main drivers of overall lifespan inequality reductions. Nevertheless, the diverging trends in longevity and lifespan inequality across education groups represent an important phenomenon whose underlying causes and potential implications should...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Longevity</span> and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment in Spain: 1960–2015
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