Thursday, March 30 / 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM   •   Beaudry A

Session 20:
Death: Trends, Distributions, Inequality

Chair: Carl Boe, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Carl Boe, University of California, Berkeley

  1. A Decomposition of Life Expectancy Levels and Trends • John Bongaarts, Population Council

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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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