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in Historical Patterns in the Intergenerational Transmission of Lifespan and Longevity: A Research Note on U.S. Cohorts Born Between 1700 and 1900
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Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 7 Association between children's longevity and mid-parent longevity by sex and cohort (1700–1900). Estimates, reported as odds ratios, are estimated through binomial logistic regression of children's longevity on parents’ longevity for separate samples based on 20-year intervals around each
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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 (2010) 47 (2): 299–312.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Vladimir Canudas-Romo Abstract This article examines the trend over time in the measures of “typical” longevity experienced by members of a population: life expectancy at birth, and the median and modal ages at death. The article also analyzes trends in record values observed for all three measures...
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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...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 95–113.
Published: 01 February 2008
... between 1992 and 2004: that is, for these cohorts, the Social Security Actuary (SSA) raised male life expectancy in 2004 and at the same lowered female life expectancy, narrowing the gender gap in longevity by 25% over this period. Further, although the subjective life expectancies for men appear...
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): iv.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in the footnotes to Tables 2 5 (pp. 508 511) in the following article: The Association of Childhood Socioeconomic Conditions With Healthy Longevity at the Oldest-Old Ages in China, by Zeng Yi, Danan Gu, and Kenneth C. Land. The signi cance level marked with a daggar should have been listed as p < .10. ...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 215–226.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Tim Miller Abstract Official Medicare projections forecast that the elderly population will be less healthy and more costly over the next century. This prediction stems from the use of age as an indicator of health status: increases in longevity are assumed to increase demand for health care...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 277–287.
Published: 01 May 1988
...James W. Vaupel Abstract The lifespansof parents and children appearonly weakly related,even though parents affect their children’s longevity through both genetic and environmental influences. These influences can be summarizedas a correlation betweenparents’and children’s frailty. It isshownthat...
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 243–258.
Published: 01 May 2005
... the proportion of survivors; (2) “verticalization,” which corresponds to how concentrated aging-related (“normal”) deaths are around the modal age at death (M); and (3) “longevity extension,” which corresponds to how far the highest normal life durations can exceed M. Our study shows that the degree...
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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 (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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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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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2105–2119.
Published: 11 November 2016
... vitality model to data from the Human Mortality Database. Model parameters yield intrinsic and extrinsic cumulative survival curves from which we derive intrinsic and extrinsic expected life spans (ELS). Intrinsic ELS, a measure of longevity acted on by intrinsic, physiological factors, changed slowly over...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 31–48.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Anatoli I. Yashin; Ivan A. Iachine Abstract In this paper we discuss an approach to the analysis of mortality and longevity limits when survival data on related individuals with and without observed covariates are available. The approach combines the ideas of demography and survival analysis...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 87–113.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., it is surprising that studies focusing on links between the Dust Bowl and later-life health have produced inconclusive and mixed results. We reevaluate this literature and study the long-term effects of in utero and early-life exposure to topsoil erosion caused by the 1930s Dust Bowl on old-age longevity...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 337–361.
Published: 01 April 2024
... uncover an association between a grandfather's ex-POW status and the longevity after age 45 of his sons and male-line grandsons but not of his daughters, granddaughters, female-line grandsons, children-in-law, or grandchildren-in-law. Male-line grandsons lost roughly a year of life at age 45 (4...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 637–659.
Published: 02 October 2012
...Jenny Torssander Abstract In addition to own education and other socioeconomic resources, the education of one’s children may be important for individual health and longevity. Mothers and fathers born between 1932 and 1941 were analyzed by linking them to their children in the Swedish Multi...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 579–586.
Published: 01 August 2010
.... ( 1984 ). Spinsters . Journal of Family History , 9 , 310 – 25 . 10.1177/036319908400900401 Demography, Volume 47-Number 3, August 2010: 579 586 579 I PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE REGARDING THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE SEX RATIO AT SEXUAL MATURITY MAY AFFECT LONGEVITY IN MEN* LEI JIN, FELIX ELWERT, JEREMY...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1999.
Published: 13 January 2017
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 979–994.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Fig. 7 Association between children's longevity and mid-parent longevity by sex and cohort (1700–1900). Estimates, reported as odds ratios, are estimated through binomial logistic regression of children's longevity on parents’ longevity for separate samples based on 20-year intervals around each...
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