Friday, May 2 / 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM   •   Vineyard

Session 128:
Understanding Old-Age Mortality

Chair: Michel Guillot, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Max Planck Odense Center

  1. All You Can Fit: Estimating a Fixed Rate of Aging on Human Mortality Surfaces • Trifon I. Missov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Carlo G. Camarda, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

  2. Mortality Deceleration Revisited: Using the LAR Approach • Natalia S. Gavrilova, University of Chicago ; Leonid A. Gavrilov, University of Chicago

  3. The Age-Trajectory of Mortality at Ages 100 and beyond: An Analysis of Individual-Level Data in Canada • Nadine Ouellette, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Robert R. Bourbeau, Université de Montréal

  4. What Does the Evidence Show about the Shape of Mortality at the Oldest Ages? • Dennis Feehan, Princeton University

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