Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency
Riffe, Tim (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
Chung, Pil H. (University of California. Department of Demography)
Spijker, Jeroen (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)
MacInnes, John (University of Edinburgh. School of Social and Political Science)

Imprint:	Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2015
Description:	32 pag.
Abstract:	We aim to determine the extent to which variables commonly used to describe health, wellbeing, and disability in old-age vary primarily as a function of years lived (chronological age), years left (thanatological age), or as a function of both. We analyze data from the US Health and Retirement Study to estimate chronological age and time-to-death patterns in 78 such variables. We describe results from the birth cohort born 1915-1919 in the nal 12 years of life. Our results show that most markers used to study well-being in old-age vary along both the age and time-to-death dimensions, but some markers are exclusively a function of either time to death or chronological age, and others display different patterns between the sexes.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad RYC-2013-1485
Note:	Altres ajuts: HHS/R01-AG011552
Note:	Altres ajuts: HHS/R01-AG04024
Note:	Altres ajuts: UK/ESRC/ES/K004611/1
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Language:	Anglès
Series:	MPIDR Working paper ; 2015-003
Document:	Working paper
Subject:	Envelliment de la població ; Persones grans ; Condicions socials

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