Saturday, May 5 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Union Square 13

Session 162:
Methodological Issues in the Study of Health and Mortality

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

  1. Cause-of-Death Decomposition of Old-Age Mortality CompressionShiro Horiuchi, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY) ; Siu Lan Karen Cheung, University of Hong Kong ; Jean-Marie Robine, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)

  2. A Note on the Compression of MortalityDalkhat M. Ediev, Vienna Institute of Demography

  3. Mortality Deceleration and Mortality Selection: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple ModelElizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  4. What Properties Should a Frailty Distribution Possess?Trifon I. Missov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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