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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1843–1871.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and thus accumulate fewer years of pension income. Both of these opposing factors influence the progressiveness of pension systems. Empirical efforts to disentangle the effects of mortality inequality on lifetime pension inequality have been scarce. Using Swedish taxation data linked with death registers...
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View articletitled, How Does <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Contribute to Lifetime Pension <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span>? Evidence From Five Decades of Swedish Taxation Data
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Inequality in Place: Effects of Exposure to Neighborhood-Level Economic Inequality on Mortality
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2041–2063.
Published: 01 December 2021
... measures of income inequality in the United States, we estimate the effects of differential exposure to income inequality during three decades of the life course on mortality. Our study is among the first to consider the implications of income inequality within U.S. tracts for mortality using longitudinal...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> in Place: Effects of Exposure to Neighborhood-Level Economic <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> on <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>
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Educational Inequality in Adult Mortality: An Assessment with Death Certificate Data from Michigan
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 1995
... between blacks’ and whites’ mortality. We discuss limitations of the data and directions for future research. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1995 1995 Death Certificate Postsecondary Education Adult Mortality Educational Inequality Educational Difference...
View articletitled, Educational <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> in Adult <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: An Assessment with Death Certificate Data from Michigan
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Divergence in Age Patterns of Mortality Change Drives International Divergence in Lifespan Inequality
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1003–1017.
Published: 23 April 2014
...Duncan O. S. Gillespie; Meredith V. Trotter; Shripad D. Tuljapurkar Abstract In the past six decades, lifespan inequality has varied greatly within and among countries even while life expectancy has continued to increase. How and why does mortality change generate this diversity? We derive...
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View articletitled, Divergence in Age Patterns of <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Change Drives International Divergence in Lifespan <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span>
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Development, inequality, health care, and mortality at the older ages: a cross-national analysis
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Demography (1983) 20 (1): 27–43.
Published: 01 February 1983
...Norman L. Weatherby; Charles B. Nam; Larry W. Isaac Abstract We examine mortality at ages 50 and above in female populations of 38 countries and control for variation in quality of the mortality data. We find that economic development, economic distributional inequality, and basic primary health...
View articletitled, Development, <span class="search-highlight">inequality</span>, health care, and <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> at the older ages: a cross-national analysis
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 187–206.
Published: 01 February 2022
... variation measure, which we call the cross-sectional average inequality in lifespan, or CAL † . This new index provides an alternative perspective on the analysis of lifespan inequality by combining the mortality histories of all cohorts present in a cross-sectional approach. We demonstrate how differences...
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View articletitled, The Cross-sectional Average <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> in Lifespan (CAL † ): A Lifespan Variation Measure That Reflects the <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Histories of Cohorts
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for article titled, The Cross-sectional Average <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> in Lifespan (CAL † ): A Lifespan Variation Measure That Reflects the <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Histories of Cohorts
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Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900–1948
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1371–1388.
Published: 13 June 2019
... States. In this article, we use data on infectious disease deaths from all reporting U.S. cities to describe regional patterns in the decline of urban infectious mortality from 1900 to 1948. Mortality Epidemiological transition Infectious disease Inequality Economic history © Population...
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View articletitled, Regional and Racial <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> in Infectious Disease <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in U.S. Cities, 1900–1948
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Published: 01 April 2025
Fig. 4 Lifespan inequality and mortality shocks in France. (a) The solid line represents the crude mortality rate (per 100,000) for France from 1855 to 2025, and the dashed line represents the counterfactual (interpolated crude mortality rates during World Wars I and II). (b) Lexis diagram
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Fig. 6 Lifespan inequality and permanent mortality changes in Sweden. (a) and (d): The proportion of deaths related to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and neoplasms for Sweden in 1982. For CVD, the share of deaths increases steadily with age, with the majority concentrated among the elderly
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A Social History of Disease: Contextualizing the Rise and Fall of Social Inequalities in Cause-Specific Mortality
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1631–1656.
Published: 16 August 2016
... factors, preventions, or treatments for a disease in a population; (2) producing inequalities , characterized by unequal diffusion of innovations; (3) reducing inequalities , characterized by increased access to health knowledge; and (4) reduced mortality/disease elimination , characterized by widely...
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View articletitled, A Social History of Disease: Contextualizing the Rise and Fall of Social <span class="search-highlight">Inequalities</span> in Cause-Specific <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>
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Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in developing countries: The case of child Survival in São Paulo, Brazil*
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Narayan Sastry Abstract I examined trends in socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality for the state of São Paulo, Brazil, over a 21-year period from 1970 to 1991, during which much of the mortality transition unfolded. During this time, there was a decline in inequality in under-five...
View articletitled, Trends in socioeconomic <span class="search-highlight">inequalities</span> in <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> in developing countries: The case of child Survival in São Paulo, Brazil*
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Understanding Trends in the Concentration of Infant Mortality Among Disadvantaged White and Black Mothers in the United States, 1983–2013: A Decomposition Analysis
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 979–1005.
Published: 22 May 2020
...—as a measure of mortality inequality—was persistently higher for Blacks than Whites, the trends were different between the two groups. The IMDI declined for Black women; for White women, however, it increased in the 1980s, then plateaued until the early 2000s, and declined thereafter. We then use Das Gupta’s...
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View articletitled, Understanding Trends in the Concentration of Infant <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Among Disadvantaged White and Black Mothers in the United States, 1983–2013: A Decomposition Analysis
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The Missing Mortality Advantage for European Immigrants to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1517–1539.
Published: 01 August 2022
...' concentration in cities, which had higher rates of infectious disease mortality, accounted for nearly half of the nativity difference in 1900, and this place effect declined in subsequent decades. Additional evidence, such as a spike in mortality inequalities during the 1918 influenza pandemic, suggests...
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View articletitled, The Missing <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Advantage for European Immigrants to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
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Proximate Sources of Change in Trajectories of First Marriage in the United States, 1960–2010
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 835–862.
Published: 21 March 2019
... and changes in social and behavioral factors led to reduced mortality, inequality grew stronger and was reflected by more intense assortative mating, and the country underwent a massive educational expansion. Each of these factors influenced the formation and dissolution of first marriages over this period...
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View articletitled, Proximate Sources of Change in Trajectories of First Marriage in the United States, 1960–2010
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A Flexible Bayesian Model for Estimating Subnational Mortality
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2025–2041.
Published: 10 October 2017
...Monica Alexander; Emilio Zagheni; Magali Barbieri Abstract Reliable subnational mortality estimates are essential in the study of health inequalities within a country. One of the difficulties in producing such estimates is the presence of small populations among which the stochastic variation...
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Losses of Expected Lifetime in the United States and Other Developed Countries: Methods and Empirical Analyses
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 211–239.
Published: 26 February 2011
...-series suggests that e † correlates with income inequality across countries but not across time. This result can be attributed to dissimilarity between the age- and cause-of-death structures of temporal mortality reduction and intercountry mortality variation. It also suggests that factors affecting...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 351–377.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and 0.40 years for women. These differences are also spatially clustered, and we show that regional inequality in life expectancy is higher based on life expectancies by state of birth, implying that interstate migration mitigates baseline geographic inequality in mortality outcomes. Finally, we assess how...
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View articletitled, Understanding Geographic Disparities in <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 441–465.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Fig. 4 Lifespan inequality and mortality shocks in France. (a) The solid line represents the crude mortality rate (per 100,000) for France from 1855 to 2025, and the dashed line represents the counterfactual (interpolated crude mortality rates during World Wars I and II). (b) Lexis diagram...
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View articletitled, An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span>
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Longevity and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment in Spain: 1960–2015
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2045–2070.
Published: 15 October 2018
... on socioeconomic inequality in mortality in Europe and the United States is that relative differences have increased since the 1970s despite a general decreasing level of mortality (Duleep 1989 ; Elo and Preston 1996 ; Feldman et al. 1989 ; Kunst et al. 2004 ; Mackenbach et al. 2016 ; Marmot and McDowall...
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A generalization of life expectancy which incorporates the age distribution of the population and its use in the measurement of the impact of mortality reduction
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 261–274.
Published: 01 May 1986
... a global and local perspective, (2) incorporate the age distribution of the population, and (3) allow reductions other than complete elimination of forces of mortality. INEQUALITIES We now show that cause-reduction and cause-elimination stand in a definite relationship to each other. In appendix...
View articletitled, A generalization of life expectancy which incorporates the age distribution of the population and its use in the measurement of the impact of <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> reduction
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