Friday, May 4 / 2:30 PM - 4:20 PM   •   Continental Parlor 1

Session 132:
Causes and Measurement of Mortality

Chair: Ryan D. Edwards, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Discussant: Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University

  1. Why the Married Live Longer: Evidence on the Selection versus Protection Effect of Marriage Using Fixed-Effect Survival Models • Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania ; Axel Skytthe, University of Southern Denmark

  2. Estimating Mortality by State of Birth and Race Using Census and Vital Statistics Data • Dan Black, University of Chicago ; Yu-Chieh Hsu, NORC at the University of Chicago ; Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University

  3. Missing Children: Indirect Estimation of Child Mortality from Census Microdata on Age Gaps between Surviving Children • Joshua R. Goldstein, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Ester Gonzales-Prieto, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Jutta Gampe, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

  4. New Tools for Ancient Populations - Estimating Age-at-Death Distributions from Skeletal Remains • Jutta Gampe, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; George Milner, Pennsylvania State University ; Jesper L. Boldsen, Syddansk Universitet ; Svenja Weise, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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