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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 673–691.
Published: 01 August 2008
... is extremely rare. These results may enlighten the debate over how harsh early-life health conditions affect older-age mortality. Demography, Volume 45-Number 3, August 2008: 673 691 673 T THE EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH LIFE EXPECTANCY OF COSTA RICAN NONAGENARIANS* LUIS ROSERO-BIXBY Robust data from a voter registry...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2037–2051.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Nan Li; Ronald Lee; Patrick Gerland Abstract In developed countries, mortality decline is decelerating at younger ages and accelerating at old ages, a phenomenon we call “rotation.” We expect that this rotation will also occur in developing countries as they attain high life expectancies...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2117–2138.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Stefan Fors; Jonas W. Wastesson; Lucas Morin Abstract Sweden is known for high life expectancy and economic egalitarianism, yet in recent decades it has lost ground in both respects. This study tracked income inequality in old-age life expectancy and life span variation in Sweden between 2006...
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 467–488.
Published: 01 April 2025
... in 2020 was 10.4 years for females and 5.8 years for males. Despite converging gender life expectancies, our projections suggest that widowhood duration will remain high until 2070, at 9.2 years for females and 6.2 years for males. Notably, we identify a negative gradient in widowhood duration along...
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Published: 27 November 2013
Fig. 3 Active life expectancy at age 50 for white men across combinations of early-life health, early-life socioeconomic context, and educational attainment. <HS = less than high school; HS = high school; SC = some college; and CO = bachelor’s degree or higher More
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1203–1213.
Published: 10 April 2017
... for non-Hispanic white women with less than a high school education; there has been a robust increase in life expectancy among white high school graduates and a smaller increase among black female high school graduates; lifespan variation did not increase appreciably among high school graduates...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1109–1134.
Published: 06 July 2016
... regions. In 2000–2009, the foreign-born had a 2.4-year advantage in life expectancy at age 65 relative to the U.S.-born, with Asian-born subgroups displaying exceptionally high longevity. Foreign-born individuals who migrated more recently had lower mortality compared with those who migrated earlier...
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 181–206.
Published: 14 September 2012
... prefers to retire earlier than an individual with high life expectancy, ceteris paribus (Bloom et al. 2003 ). 10 The estimates of unconditional remaining life expectancy at age 65 are 15.99 (0.49) for men and 18.41 (0.38) for women. For these calculations, we estimated the mortality risk model...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 February 2001
... and middle age since the 1950s have led to exceptionally high ratios of male to female mortality at these ages. Corrections for census undercounts lead to higher values of life expectancy than in official life tables, but to less improvement over time. Official estimates of life expectancy at age 65 appear...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 95–113.
Published: 01 February 2008
... to be roughly in line with the 2004 life tables, the subjective expectations of women suggest that female life expectancies estimated by the SSA might still be on the high side. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2008 2008 Survival Probability Life Table Survivor Function...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 73–95.
Published: 16 November 2013
... occupational classes. Tackling the high early-adult mortality of the lower occupational classes would help these groups also achieve both increasing life expectancy and decreasing lifespan variation. Lifespan variation increases or decreases with increasing life expectancy, depending on the balance...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 459–473.
Published: 01 November 1984
... levels. This research tests a threshold hypothesis which holds that fertility will decline from traditional high levels if threshold levels of life expectancy and literacy are surpassed. Using a pooled regression analysis of 1950, 1960, 1970 and 1980 crude births rates (CBRs) in 20 less developed Latin...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2071–2096.
Published: 12 November 2018
... countries from the region. Generally, life disparity was high and fluctuated strongly over the period. For nearly 30 of these years, life expectancy and life disparity varied independently of each other, largely because mortality trends ran in opposite directions over different ages. Furthermore, we...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 269–293.
Published: 26 January 2016
.... Among low-educated whites, adult life expectancy declined by 3.1 years for women and by 0.6 years for men. At the same time, S 25 increased by about 1.5 years among high school–educated whites of both genders, becoming an increasingly important component of total lifespan inequality. By contrast...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1549–1579.
Published: 01 October 2023
... understanding of how important a role they play over the life course. This study answers the question, How many years can Americans now expect to spend taking prescription drugs? Understanding life course patterns of prescription drug use is particularly important given the high and rising rates of use...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 949–973.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... The percentage figure in each bar shows the percentage of total LE spent disability-free for each cohort. LE=life expectancy. HS=high school. BA=bachelor's degree. Fig. 5 Estimated partial-cohort LE and disability-free LE across birth cohorts by educational attainment, both sexes combined. The dark shading...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1583–1603.
Published: 23 September 2016
... quartile increases from 72.79 to 75.62 for females, and from 70.13 to 72.78 for males. Female G1 farmers had an average age at death similar to those in the lowest quartiles, while male G1 farmers had relatively high life expectancy compared with other SES categories. Although this suggests that males...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1115–1137.
Published: 01 August 2023
... explained by the high levels of labor protection and the insider‒outsider nature of the German labor market. The share of working life contributed at ages 65 to 74 has also been increasing, but at a low level, which shows that work at these ages is still not the norm, although it is becoming more common...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 227–251.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in Table 4. The first two subcolumns show results where the depen- dent variables respectively are the log-odds of survival to age 65 and life expectancy (at age 16). Comparison of results from areas with low poverty rates (e.g., 5%) and high pov- erty rates (e.g., 50%) shows that the probability...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1187–1210.
Published: 01 August 2024
... in early life lowered the SES-specific life expectancy for all females except those born to farmers or fishermen. This reduction translated into a life expectancy at ages 1–85 that was 3.5 years lower for females with high disease exposure who were born to unskilled workers relative to females with low...
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