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CAUSES, CORRELATES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DEATH AMONG OLDER ADULTS
SOME METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND SUBSTANTIVE ANALYSES |
| By: |
Jere R. Behrman, Robin C. Sickles, Paul Taubman |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£99.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0792382862 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780792382867 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 1998 |
| Edition: |
1998 ed. |
| Pages: |
186 |
| Description: |
Why are there differences in life expectancies among various demographic groups? Why have these changes in life expectancies occurred? This text considers an approach to investigating determinants of and correlates of mortality in the United States - integrating modeling, micro data, and modern econometric techniques. |
| Synopsis: |
All humans eventually die, but life expectancies differ over time and among different demographic groups. Teasing out the various causes and correlates of death is a challenge, and it is one we take on in this book. A look at the data on mortality is both interesting and suggestive of some possible relationships. In 1900 life expectancies at birth were 46. 3 and 48. 3 years for men and women respectively, a gender differential of a bit less than 5 percent. Life expectancies for whites then were about 0. 3 years longer than that of the whole population, but life expectancies for blacks were only about 33 years for men and women. At age 65, the remaining life expectancies were about 12 and 11 years for whites and blacks respectively. Fifty years later, life expectancies at birth had grown to 66 and 71 years for males and females respectively. The percentage differential between the sexes was now almost up to 10 percent. The life expectancies of whites were about one year longer than that for the entire population. The big change was for blacks, whose life expectancy had grown to over 60 years with black females living about 5 percent longer than their male counterparts. At age 65 the remaining expected life had increased about two years with much larger percentage gains for blacks. |
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XV, 186 p. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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