Trends in Education-Specific Life Expectancy, Data Quality, and Shifting Education Distributions: A Note on Recent Research

Demography

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1203-1213

  Hendi, Arun S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Gradients; Health; Mortality; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85017280524     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0574-2     Document Type: Article

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