Session 20:
Death: Trends, Distributions, Inequality
Chair: Carl Boe, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Carl Boe, University of California, Berkeley
A Decomposition of Life Expectancy Levels and Trends John Bongaarts, Population Council
Ten Years after Kannisto: Further Evidence for Mortality Decline at Advanced Ages in Developed Countries Roland Rau, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Eugeny Soroko, Russian Academy of Sciences ; Domantas Jasilionis, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; James W. Vaupel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
What Can Be Learnt by Studying the Adult Modal Age at Death? Jean-Marie Robine, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) ; Siu Lan Karen Cheung, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) and Demographie et Sante
One Hundred Years of US Racial Inequalities in Mortality: A Decomposition of the Distribution of Deaths by Age Group, 1900-1999 Margaret M. Weden, University of Wisconsin at Madison
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