Friday, September 3 / 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM   •   Room HS23

Session 49:
Analysing health and mortality: causation and selection

Chair: Frans Willekens, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

  1. Intergenerational social mobility and health: the inequality paradox • Patrick Deboosere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  2. Long-term effects of famine on life expectancy. A re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine 1866-1868 • Gabriele Doblhammer-Reiter, University of Rostock ; Gerard G. J. van den Berg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute ; L.H. Lumey, Columbia University

  3. The contribution of familial component in Sardinian longevity: measuring unobserved heterogeneity • Luisa Salaris, Università degli Studi di Cagliari ; Nicola Tedesco, Università degli Studi di Cagliari ; Michel Poulain, Université Catholique de Louvain

  4. Can multi-stage mortality selection explain a mortality deceleration puzzle? • Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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