Session 87: International/Comparative Research on Mortality

Friday, Apr 2 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM Berkeley 3rd Floor

1.	One Hundred Years of Mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Fragile Path from Hunger to Longevity  •   Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Guido Pinto, University of Wisconsin at Madison

2.	International Distributions of the Age at Death and Mortality Convergence  •   Ryan D. Edwards, Stanford University

3.	Using the Lee-Carter Method to Explain Linear Increases in Life Expectancy  •   Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University; Nan Li, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

4.	Gompertzian Mortality Curves Are a Natural Consequence of Biological Damage and Repair Mechanisms  •   Lloyd P. Goldwasser, University of California, Berkeley

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