The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been starkly
unequal across race and ethnicity. We examined the geographic variation in excess all …

Knowledge of true mortality trajectory at extreme old ages is important for biologists who test
their theories of aging with demographic data. Studies using both simulation and direct age …

There is great interest among gerontologists, demographers, and actuaries in the question
concerning the limits to human longevity. Attempts at getting answers to this important …

Several organisms, including humans, display a deceleration in mortality rates at advanced
ages. This mortality deceleration is sufficiently rapid to allow late-life mortality to plateau in …

Topics discussed at the “Leveraging Existing Data and Analytic Methods for Health
Disparities Research Related to Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias” …

One of the most permanent features of the United States is racial and ethnic stratification.
Race and ethnicity are important dimensions in understanding the demography of the …

Rural‐urban migration is an integral part of the structural transformation as societies move
from a traditional agricultural economy to a modern economy. This process has many …

The increasingly central role of vertical family kinship in Western societies underscores the
potential value of intergenerational linkages that tie grandparents to the fertility of their adult …

Social surveys prospectively linked with death records provide invaluable opportunities for
the study of the relationship between social and economic circumstances and mortality …

Individual life expectancies provide information for individuals making retirement decisions
and for policy makers. For couples, analogous measures are the expected years both …