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Sex differences in morbidity and mortality
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 189–214.
Published: 01 May 2005
... on male mortality. The greater effects of smoking-related conditions on men s health may be due to their higher rates ofsmoking throughout their lives. Research on sex differences in health in a large number of countries has brought to light an important paradox: women use more health services and report...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Sex</span> <span class="search-highlight">differences</span> in morbidity and <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span>
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Declining sex differences in mortality from lung cancer in high-income nations
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Fred C. Pampel Abstract After decades of widening, the difference in mortality from lung cancer between men and women has begun to narrow in recent years. Recognizing that the increase in smoking among women relative to men is the proximate cause of the changing sex difference in rates of lung...
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Social, behavioral, and biological factors, and sex differences in mortality
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 555–578.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Richard G. Rogers; Bethany G. Everett; Jarron M. Saint Onge; Patrick M. Krueger Abstract Few studies have examined whether sex differences in mortality are associated with different distributions of risk factors or result from the unique relationships between risk factors and mortality for men...
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Sex mortality differences in The United States: The role of cohort smoking patterns
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 631–646.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Samuel H. Preston; Haidong Wang Abstract This article demonstrates that over the period 1948–2003, sex differences in mortality in the age range 50–84 widened and then narrowed on a cohort basis rather than on a period basis. The cohort with the maximum excess of male mortality was born shortly...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Sex</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> <span class="search-highlight">differences</span> in The United States: The role of cohort smoking patterns
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Sex Differences in Early-Age Mortality: The Preconception Origins Hypothesis
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2053–2056.
Published: 02 November 2015
...Roland Pongou 6 10 2015 2 11 2015 © Population Association of America 2015 2015 Questions about the causes of sex differences in mortality have occupied statisticians, biologists, and social scientists since pioneer demographer John Graunt ( 1662 ) discovered, through his...
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Published: 01 February 2023
Fig. 3 Mortality trajectories for six different sex-specific populations during different years. Panel a shows the risk of dying over chronological ages. Panel b depicts the risk of dying over survivorship ages. Black crosses indicate the location of s-age x ( .80 ) . Note
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Proximate sources of population sex imbalance in india
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 325–339.
Published: 01 May 2009
... the possibility of naturally occurring sex differences in survival and possible differences between investments in their importance for survival. Consistent with existing literature, I find significant excess female mortality in childhood, particularly between the ages of 1 and 5, and argue that the sex imbalance...
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The Mechanism Underlying Change in the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy at Birth: An Extended Decomposition
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2307–2321.
Published: 20 November 2019
... the mechanism involved, this study extends existing decomposition methods. The extended method decomposes change in the sex gap in life expectancy at birth into three components capturing the effects of the sex difference in mortality improvement (ρ-effect), life table deaths density by age ( f -effect...
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View articletitled, The Mechanism Underlying Change in the <span class="search-highlight">Sex</span> Gap in Life Expectancy at Birth: An Extended Decomposition
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Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in Boys Than in Girls? A New Hypothesis Based on Preconception Environment and Evidence From a Large Sample of Twins
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 421–444.
Published: 14 November 2012
...Roland Pongou Abstract Infant mortality is higher in boys than girls in most parts of the world. This has been explained by sex differences in genetic and biological makeup, with boys being biologically weaker and more susceptible to diseases and premature death. At the same time, recent studies...
View articletitled, Why Is Infant <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Higher in Boys Than in Girls? A New Hypothesis Based on Preconception Environment and Evidence From a Large Sample of Twins
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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
... educational differences in mortality rates. With log-rates modeling, we systematically analyze the variability in educational differences in mortality by race and sex across the adult life cycle. The relative differences in mortality rates between educational levels decline with age at the same pace for all...
View articletitled, Educational Inequality in Adult <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: An Assessment with Death Certificate Data from Michigan
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Mortality Increase in Late-Middle and Early-Old Age: Heterogeneity in Death Processes as a New Explanation
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1563–1591.
Published: 07 June 2013
...-mortality countries and demonstrated sex differences in these patterns, which also changed across period and cohort. These results suggest that the interaction between aging and death is more complicated than what is usually assumed from the Gompertz law and also challenge existing biodemographic hypotheses...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Increase in Late-Middle and Early-Old Age: Heterogeneity in Death Processes as a New Explanation
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Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
... investments in India: Are boys and girls treated differently? . American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , 6 ( 1 ), 157 – 189 . Basu , A. M. ( 1989 ). Is discrimination in food really necessary for explaining sex differentials in childhood mortality? . Population Studies , 43 , 193...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2013–2024.
Published: 01 December 2022
... at a given time. While decompositions of HE differences account for contributions made by health and mortality, differences in HCAL are further disentangled into cohort-specific contributions. In this research note we illustrate the technique by analyzing the sex gap in health and mortality for the United...
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View articletitled, Comparing Cohort Survival in Good Health: A Research Note on Decomposing <span class="search-highlight">Sex</span> Differentials in the United States
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On the derivation of a two-sex stable population model
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Demography (1978) 15 (4): 541–548.
Published: 01 November 1978
... derived separately for the males and females in a population, when one assumes the continuation of their respective mortality and fertility experiences, usually turn out to be different. Noting that the phenomenon of human reproduction is a product of the cooperation between the two sexes, we have...
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Understanding the sex ratio in India: A simulation approach
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 477–488.
Published: 01 November 2000
..., or excess female mortality throughout the life course as the factors underlying the level of the overall sex ratio; these arguments have not been resolved. Based on population projections that simulate population dynamics, our findings show that small differences in mortality at young ages, persisting over...
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The significance of differences in patterns of mortality for population projections
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 185–197.
Published: 01 March 1968
.... 119_26, Tables 6, 8, and 9. - - 188 DEMOGRAPHY mortality in populations under different circumstances. THE METHOD The method may be briefly described in four steps. First, a test stable population classified by sex and age in groups of 5 years, with an expectation of life at birth (eo) of 30 years (West...
View articletitled, The significance of <span class="search-highlight">differences</span> in patterns of <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> for population projections
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Estimating 1 a 0 and 4 a 1 in a Life Table: A Model Approach Based on Newly Collected Data
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 643–664.
Published: 01 June 2024
... the different combinations of q 5 0 and k that result in the same value of a mortality function, given the coefficients of the log-quadratic model (both sexes combined) Fig. 3 Contour lines representing the different combinations of q50 and k that result in the same value of a mortality...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 607–628.
Published: 01 April 2022
... this instrument with restricted-access U.S. death certificate data from 1993–2007, we estimate the causal effect of commuting zone–level automation on cause-specific, county-level mortality among working-age adults by age and sex in a series of first-differences models. We find that increases in automation...
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View articletitled, Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the United States
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess All-Cause Mortality in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 February 2024
.... While age- and sex-adjusted results allow for direct comparisons across race and ethnicity groups, they—by design—mask ethnoracial differences in excess mortality over the life course. Prior research has emphasized this point by quantifying pandemic-era mortality in terms of changes in life expectancy...
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View articletitled, Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess All-Cause <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1887–1903.
Published: 03 August 2018
...Marcus Ebeling Abstract In contrast to the upper boundary of mortality, the lower boundary has so far largely been neglected. Based on the three key features—location, sex-specific difference, and level—I analyze past and present trends in the lower boundary of human mortality. The analysis...
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View articletitled, How Has the Lower Boundary of Human <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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