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Access or Ability: What’s Behind the Relationship between Early Socioeconomic Status and Adult Mortality?

Posted on January 10, 2019

Rainwater, Elizabeth Working paper no. 2005-05 Abstract There is a persistent relationship between early socioeconomic status and morbidity and mortality that is well documented in the literature. In this thesis, I explore two of the …

Posted in working paperTagged economics, family, mortality, wisconsin longitudinal study

Looks that Kill: Predicting Adult Health and Mortality from Adolescent Facial Characteristics in Yearbook Photographs

Posted on January 10, 2019

Reither, Erin, Robert Hauser, and Karen Swallen Working paper no. 2006-11 Abstract Some of the richest longitudinal studies in the social sciences did not, at their outset, gather biomarkers that are routinely recorded today—including the …

Posted in working paperTagged health, mortality, robert hauser, wisconsin longitudinal study

Obesity and the Loss of Life: A Comparison between the US and Mexico

Posted on January 10, 2019

Monteverde, Malena, Beatriz Novak, Kenya Noronha, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 2007-12 Abstract High and increasing levels of obesity in the US and Mexico could compromise future gains in life expectancy for these populations. …

Posted in working paperTagged alberto palloni, health, life course, mortality

Spouses’ Effectiveness as End-of-Life Health Care Surrogates: Accuracy, Uncertainty, and Errors of Overtreatment or Undertreatment

Posted on January 10, 2019

Moorman, Sara, and Deborah Carr Working paper no. 2007-19 Abstract Purpose: We document the extent to which older adults accurately report their spouses’ end-of-life treatment preferences, in the hypothetical scenarios of terminal illness with severe …

Posted in working paperTagged health, life course, marriage, mortality

The Differential Impact of Mortality of American Troops in the Iraq War: The Non-Metropolitan Dimension

Posted on January 10, 2019

Curtis, Katherine, Collin F. Payne, and Jennifer Huck Working paper no. 2008-08

Posted in working paperTagged katherine curtis, mortality

Recent US Trends in Body Weight and Mortality: Using Weight at Age 25

Posted on January 3, 2019

Yu, Yan Working paper no. 2008-17 Abstract The expanding waistlines of the American population have stirred immense research and public interest in how secular changes in body weight affect population health. Big controversies and gaps …

Posted in working paperTagged health, mortality

Re-Examining the Age Effect on the Weight-Mortality Relationship: Age of Death, Age of Weight and Cohort Effect

Posted on January 3, 2019

Yu, Yan Working paper no. 2008-18 Abstract The majority of US adults are overweight or obese. Contemporary cohorts have been gaining weight continuously well up to the oldest ages. The negative health consequences of excess …

Posted in working paperTagged health, life course, mortality

Roadblocks for Sustained Improvements in Life Expectancy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Posted on January 3, 2019

Palloni, Alberto, Kenya Noronha, and Mary McEniry Working paper no. 2009-02 Abstract Future life expectancy in Latin America and the Caribbean could be compromised. Older people attaining age 60 after the years 1990-2000 are scarred …

Posted in working paperTagged alberto palloni, life course, mary mceniry, mortality

Infant Mortality during the 1920s-1940s in Puerto Rico and the Health of Older Puerto Rican Adults

Posted on January 3, 2019

McEniry, Mary Working paper no. 2009-03 Abstract Infant mortality at birth may help illuminate the usefulness of season of birth as an indicator of early life exposures. We obtained data for infant mortality rates (IMR) …

Posted in working paperTagged children, life course, mary mceniry, mortality

Mortality Decline in the Twentieth Century, Early Life Conditions and the Health of Aging Populations in the Developing World

Posted on January 3, 2019

McEniry, Mary Working paper no. 2009-04 Abstract The dramatic mortality decline of the 1930s-1960s may shed light on the importance of early life conditions for older adult health in the developing world. We collected historical …

Posted in working paperTagged life course, mary mceniry, mortality
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