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Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1185–1206.
Published: 12 September 2012
...Dora L. Costa Abstract Debilitating events could leave either more frail or more robust survivors, depending on the extent of scarring and mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find more frail survivors. I find heterogeneous effects. Among severely stressed former Union Army...
View articletitled, Scarring and <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up
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Mortality Deceleration and Mortality Selection: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 51–71.
Published: 03 January 2014
... of the cohort is frail; (2) multiple decelerations are possible; and (3) mortality selection can produce acceleration as well as deceleration. Simulations show that these patterns are plausible in model cohorts that in the aggregate resemble cohorts in the Human Mortality Database. I argue that these results...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Deceleration and <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span>: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model
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Aging in the Context of Cohort Evolution and Mortality Selection
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1295–1317.
Published: 03 June 2014
...Hui Zheng Abstract This study examines historical patterns of aging through the perspectives of cohort evolution and mortality selection, where the former emphasizes the correlation across cohorts in the age dependence of mortality rates, and the latter emphasizes cohort change in the acceleration...
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View articletitled, Aging in the Context of Cohort Evolution and <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span>
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Partnership Status, Health, and Mortality: Selection or Protection?
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 189–207.
Published: 01 February 2024
... a union and less likely to dissolve it (selection). This study contributes to this debate by investigating health and mortality by partnership status in England and Wales and analyzing the causes of mortality differences. We use combined data from the British Household Panel Survey and the UK Household...
View articletitled, Partnership Status, Health, and <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> or Protection?
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Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 747–777.
Published: 25 March 2020
...Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Abstract Theoretical models of mortality selection have great utility in explaining otherwise puzzling phenomena. The most famous example may be the Black-White mortality crossover: at old ages, Blacks outlive Whites, presumably because few frail Blacks survive to old ages...
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View articletitled, Multidimensional <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span>: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty
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An illustration of mortality selection mechanism (MS) and cohort evolution ...
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Fig. 1 An illustration of mortality selection mechanism (MS) and cohort evolution theory (CE). ln( R t ) represents logarithm transformation of age-specific mortality rate at age t
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Acceleration caused by mortality selection. The solid black line gives the ...
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in Mortality Deceleration and Mortality Selection: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model
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Published: 03 January 2014
Fig. 3 Acceleration caused by mortality selection. The solid black line gives the artificial derivatives calculated by fixing subpopulation mortality and allowing frailty composition to decline as normal. The dashed dark gray line, provided for reference, is the actual derivative
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Adult Mortality From Sibling Survival Data: A Reappraisal of Selection Biases
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 207–228.
Published: 02 October 2012
...–585, 2006 ) of corrections for selection biases. Based on microsimulations, this article shows that Gakidou and King’s weighting scheme has been incorrectly applied to survey data, leading to overestimates of mortality, especially for males. The evidence for an association between mortality...
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View articletitled, Adult <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> From Sibling Survival Data: A Reappraisal of <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Biases
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Death by survey: Estimating adult mortality without selection bias from sibling survival data
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 569–585.
Published: 01 August 2006
... this assumption is violated so that the mortality rate varies with sib ship size, mortality estimates can be massively biased. By using insights from work on the statistical analysis of selection bias, survey weighting, and extrapolation problems, we propose a new and relatively simple method of recovering...
View articletitled, Death by survey: Estimating adult <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> without <span class="search-highlight">selection</span> bias from sibling survival data
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Marriage selection and mortality patterns: Inferences and fallacies
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 189–208.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Noreen Goldman Abstract Researchers have long wondered whether marital-status differences in mortality arise largely from selection mechanisms or from causal processes typically known as marriage protection . Unfortunately, many investigators have relied on aggregate patterns of mortality...
View articletitled, Marriage <span class="search-highlight">selection</span> and <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> patterns: Inferences and fallacies
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1335–1357.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Michel Guillot; Myriam Khlat; Romeo Gansey; Matthieu Solignac; Irma Elo Abstract The migrant mortality advantage (MMA) has been observed in many immigrant-receiving countries, but its underlying factors remain poorly understood. This article examines the role of return migration selection effects...
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View articletitled, Return Migration <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> and Its Impact on the Migrant <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data
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Methods for Comparing the Mortality Experience of Heterogeneous Populations
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 389–410.
Published: 01 August 1981
... of the degree of population heterogeneity it is possible to adjust comparisons of mortality risks across populations for the effects of population heterogeneity, differential mortality selection, and different age trajectories of the force of mortality. These methods are demonstrated by applying a variety...
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Early-Life Disease Exposure and Its Heterogeneous Effects on Mortality Throughout Life: Sweden, 1905–2016
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1187–1210.
Published: 01 August 2024
... high disease exposure in infancy, particularly for those born to unskilled workers. For males, we find no negative effect on later-life survival, likely because stronger mortality selection in infancy outweighs scarring. Thus, even as the incidence of infectious diseases declined at the start...
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View articletitled, Early-Life Disease Exposure and Its Heterogeneous Effects on <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Throughout Life: Sweden, 1905–2016
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Concerning an index of mortality
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 354–361.
Published: 01 March 1968
... The possibility of constructing a mortality index from age data suggested the hypothesis that mortality is directly related to the fertility ratio and inversely related to the percentage of old persons. The measures of mortality selected were life expectations at birth, at one year, and at five years. A sample...
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In a Stationary Population, the Average Lifespan of the Living Is a Length-Biased Life Expectancy
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 207–220.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., and prevalent cohorts; and offers a framework for thinking about mortality selection more broadly than the concept of demographic frailty. Length bias is not the only perspective through which to view these results. In the remainder of this article, though, we use the length-biased interpretation of the ALL...
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Grandchildren's Longevity and Their Grandfathers’ POW Trauma in the U.S. Civil War
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 337–361.
Published: 01 April 2024
... at exposure and the grandson's education, as well as the son's and the grandson's poor late gestational conditions (proxied by season of birth), mediate this relationship. I rule out socioeconomic status, marriage and mortality selection, and cultural or psychological transmission from grandfathers...
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Age trajectories of the mortality hazards for selected female and male coho...
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Fig. 1 Age trajectories of the mortality hazards for selected female and male cohorts in Sweden
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Three roles of residual frailty on aggregate mortality in the two-dimension...
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in Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty
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Published: 25 March 2020
Fig. 5 Three roles of residual frailty on aggregate mortality in the two-dimensional mortality selection model
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in Gender and the Politics of Death: Female Representation, Political and Developmental Context, and Population Health in a Cross-National Panel
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Published: 20 August 2018
Fig. 1 Child mortality rate by level of economic development in 2010, select developing countries. Source: World Bank Database
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Functional relationships between the race and frailty multipliers and aggre...
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in Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty
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Published: 25 March 2020
Fig. 1 Functional relationships between the race and frailty multipliers and aggregate mortality in the unidimensional mortality selection model (panel a), and two roles of unidimensional frailty in aggregate mortality (panel b)
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