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Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults Some Methodological Approaches and Substantive Analyses

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Behrman, Jere R., Sickles, Robin C. (Author), Taubman, Paul (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Subjects:
Economic Policy
Microeconomics
Population Economics
Econometrics
Population / Economic Aspects
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Appendix 6.A Procedures Used for Calculating Mortality Adjusted Rates of Return from Social Security from RHS-SSA Data
  • Tables
  • 7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Author Index
  • 4.3 Robustness of Estimates Over Time, Functional Form, and with Unobserved Heterogeneity
  • 4.4 More Detailed Cohort Effects
  • 4.5 Maximum Penalized Likelihood Estimators
  • 4.6 Starting the Analysis Later
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • 5 Mortality hazard estimates from the retirement history survey: education, pensions, and marital status and black-white and gender differences
  • 5.1 Mortality and Hazard Function Results for Men
  • 5.2 Black-White Mortality Inequalities for Males
  • 5.3 Mortality Hazard Model for Women
  • 5.4 Conclusion
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • 6 Private rates of return on social security and their relation to mortality for groups defined by socioeconomic characteristics
  • 6.1 Prior Research on Returns to Social Security System
  • 6.2 Estimated Rates of Returns to Investments in Social Security
  • 6.3 Analysis of RHS Data
  • 6.4 Differences by Socioeconomic Characteristics
  • 6.5 Results from Two Cohorts in the PSID
  • 6.6 Conclusion
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 General Categories of Causes of Differential Life Expectancies among Groups and Over Time: Genetics, Environment, and Behaviors
  • 1.2 Why are the Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death of Interest?
  • 1.3 Concerns and Results of This Book
  • 1.4 Methodology
  • 1.5 Organization of This Book
  • 2 The optimal choice of health and mortality
  • 2.1 Previous Models
  • 2.2 The Retirement History Survey and Variable Construction
  • 2.3 New Estimates of Utility and Health Production Parameters
  • 2.4 Conclusion
  • Tables
  • 3 Statistical techniques for estimation of hazard functions
  • 3.1 Introduction to Hazard Models
  • 3.2 Estimation of Survival Hazard Models with Heterogeneity
  • 3.3 Monte Carlo Results
  • Tables
  • 4 Mortality hazard estimates from the dorn sample: smoking, occupational risks, birth cohort, functional form and frailty
  • 4.1 Previous Mortality Studies
  • 4.2 The Dorn Sample

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