Session 121:
Understanding the Dynamics of Health and Mortality
Chair: Michel Guillot, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Discussant: John R. Wilmoth, United Nations
The Modal Age at Death and the Shifting Mortality Hypothesis Vladimir Canudas-Romo, University of California, Berkeley
Convergence of the Aging Rates for Healthy and Unhealthy Elderly at Advanced Ages Aliaksandr Kulminski, Duke University ; Svetlana V. Ukraintseva, Duke University ; Kenneth C. Land, Duke University ; Kenneth G. Manton, Duke University
Testing the Influenza-Tuberculosis Selective Mortality Hypothesis in Australia Andrew Noymer, University of California, Berkeley
The Triumph of Cohort Effects in the Explanation of Mortality Change: A New Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Adult Cause-Specific Mortality in the United States Yang Yang, University of Chicago
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