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Published: 16 November 2013
Fig. 3 Trends in early-life disparity (panels A and B) and late-life disparity (panels C and D) at age 31 by sex and occupational class, Finland, 1971–2010
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Published: 16 November 2013
Fig. 2 Trends in remaining life expectancy (upper panels) and life disparity (lower panels) at age 31 by sex and occupational class, Finland, 1971–2010
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Published: 16 November 2013
Fig. 4 The change in life disparity decomposed into age and cause-specific components (in years), from 1971–1975 to 2006–2010, by sex and occupational class. Manual workers : external mortality –0.05 years (males), 0.23 years (females); circulatory diseases –0.63 years (males), –0.88 years
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Published: 16 November 2013
Fig. 6 Age and cause-of-death decomposition of life disparity at age 31 between the upper nonmanual and manual classes when remaining life expectancy at age 31 was similar (about 43 years for males and 50.5 years for females). The total contributions from each cause of death (up to ages where
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in State-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 1960–2019: A Research Note
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Published: 01 February 2023
Fig. 3 Change in lifespan disparity ( e 0 † ) and life expectancy ( e 0 ) at birth among states in three time periods
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in Lifespan Dispersion in Times of Life Expectancy Fluctuation: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe
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Published: 12 November 2018
Fig. 2 Trends in male life expectancy ( e 0 ) and lifespan disparity ( e † ) for 12 Eastern European countries, 1960–2014. Source: Own calculations based on Human Mortality Database ( 2016 ) data
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2247–2269.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Andrea M. Tilstra; Iliya Gutin; Nathan T. Dollar; Richard G. Rogers; Robert A. Hummer Abstract Research on Black–White disparities in mortality emphasizes the cumulative pathways through which racism gets “under the skin” to affect health. Yet this framing is less applicable in early life, when...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2125–2158.
Published: 21 November 2017
... for understanding disparities in cognitive function. Drawing from sociology, demography, public health, and medical research, three theoretical models emerge to explain how life-course social disadvantage may affect later-life cognitive function. I briefly review the literature that motivates the theoretical models...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 921–947.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Health Health disparities Life expectancy Loneliness Loneliness at older ages is currently the subject of much attention. Media accounts of a loneliness epidemic and references to loneliness as a public health crisis are abundant, the United Kingdom and Japan have both appointed ministers...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 553–574.
Published: 28 January 2012
...Michael Geruso Abstract This article quantifies the extent to which socioeconomic and demographic characteristics can account for black-white disparities in life expectancy in the United States. Although many studies have investigated the linkages between race, socioeconomic status, and mortality...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1815–1841.
Published: 01 December 2023
...: PhenoAge, Klemera–Doubal biological age, and homeostatic dysregulation. It also examines the contributions of racial differences in life course socioeconomic and stress exposures and vulnerability to those exposures to Black–White disparities in biological aging. Across the outcomes, Black individuals...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2071–2096.
Published: 12 November 2018
...Fig. 2 Trends in male life expectancy ( e 0 ) and lifespan disparity ( e † ) for 12 Eastern European countries, 1960–2014. Source: Own calculations based on Human Mortality Database ( 2016 ) data ...
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in Lifespan Dispersion in Times of Life Expectancy Fluctuation: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe
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Published: 12 November 2018
Fig. 3 Absolute and relative yearly changes in life expectancy and lifespan disparity, 1960–2010. Data for Slovenia begin in 1983. The black dots are related to changes experienced in Russia. The percentages correspond to the total changes occurred during each period. Source: Own calculations
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1615–1640.
Published: 17 September 2013
...Alyson A. van Raalte; Hal Caswell Abstract A number of indices exist to calculate lifespan variation, each with different underlying properties. Here, we present new formulae for the response of seven of these indices to changes in the underlying mortality schedule (life disparity, Gini coefficient...
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in Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis
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Published: 01 December 2023
Fig. 2 Contributions of life course SES and stress burden to Black–White disparities in biological age acceleration (PhenoAge algorithm). Results of Kitagawa–Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition of racial disparities in the PhenoAge measure of biological age acceleration. Analyses included the full set
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 73–95.
Published: 16 November 2013
...Fig. 3 Trends in early-life disparity (panels A and B) and late-life disparity (panels C and D) at age 31 by sex and occupational class, Finland, 1971–2010 ...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1559–1577.
Published: 05 July 2017
... that studying lifespan disparity may also help to improve the methodology and thus the predictive ability of mortality forecasts. Evaluation Forecasting performance Lifespan disparity Average lifespan Errors and test statistics of basic life table functions are useful for specifying precisely how...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 351–377.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jason M. Fletcher; Michal Engelman; Norman J. Johnson; Jahn Hakes; Alberto Palloni Abstract A rich literature shows that early-life conditions shape later-life outcomes, including health and migration events. However, analyses of geographic disparities in mortality outcomes focus almost exclusively...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 629–652.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to comprehensively investigate how early-life conditions and adult SES combine to influence healthy longevity in later life. We find that both childhood and adulthood SES are associated with late-life health. The largest disparities in life expectancy (LE) and disability-free LE...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1579–1602.
Published: 28 July 2017
..., but the contour method is more widely applicable. We provide a full description of the contour replacement method and examples of its application to life expectancy and lifetime disparity differences between the United States and England and Wales in the period 1980–2010. What if one wanted to decompose...
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