| Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults: Some Methodological Approaches and Substantive Analyses 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Behrman, Jere R. (Author), Sickles, Robin C. (Author), Taubman, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0792382862 ISBN-13: 9780792382867 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: Why are there differences in life expectancies among various demographic groups? Why have these changes in life expectancies occurred? Many reasons are given in the popular and more scholarly literatures. Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults considers an integrated approach to investigating determinants of and correlates of mortality in the United States - integrating modeling, micro data, and modern econometric techniques. A number of examples of applications are included, with some explorations of the robustness of the results under alternative assumptions. The basic purpose of this text is to increase our knowledge of mortality and to illustrate how such an integrated approach can further our knowledge of mortality and related phenomena. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Demography - Medical | Geriatrics - Medical | Pathology |
| Dewey: 304.640 |
| LCCN: 98039379 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.05 lbs) 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |