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标题：Minor gradient in mortality by education at the highest ages: An application of the Extinct-Cohort method
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作者：Roland Rau ; Magdalena Muszyńska ; Paul Eilers 等
期刊名称：Demographic Research
印刷版ISSN：1435-9871
电子版ISSN：1435-9871
出版年度：2013
卷号：29
页码：507-520
DOI：10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.19
出版社：Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
摘要：Background: Socioeconomic mortality differentials are known to exist almost universally. Many studies show a trend towards convergence with increasing age. Information about the highest ages is very rare, though. Objective: We want to find out whether socioeconomic factors determine the chance of death in the United States among the oldest people. Methods: Based on official death count records, we employ the extinct cohort method to estimate the age-specific probability of dying by level of education. Results: We present evidence that socioeconomic differentials in mortality exist even at the highest ages (95+), although the gap is small. Comments: To our knowledge, this is the first population-based study to analyze socioeconomic mortality differentials at ages 95 and higher. We present, furthermore, a novel field of application for the extinct cohort method.
关键词：extinct cohort;oldest old mortality;socioeconomic differentials