Friday, March 30 / 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM   •   Duffy/Columbia

Session 103:
Race/Ethnic Differences in Mortality

Chair: Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Discussant: Andrew Noymer, University of California, Irvine

  1. Hindu-Muslim Differentials in Infant and Child Survival in India: Some Unexpected FindingsAlaka Malwade Basu, Cornell University ; Lindy Williams, Cornell University ; Deladem Kusi-Appouh, Cornell University

  2. Explaining the "Russian Mortality Paradox"Michel Guillot, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Natalia S. Gavrilova, University of Chicago ; Tetyana Pudrovska, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  3. The Effects of Education and Nativity on Cause-Specific Older Age Mortality in TaiwanAlbert Hermalin, University of Michigan ; Mary Beth Ofstedal, University of Michigan ; Cathy Sun, University of Michigan ; I-Wen Liu, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan

  4. Mortality Experience of Tsimane Amerindians of Bolivia: Regional Variation, Temporal Trends and Epidemiological TransitionHillard S. Kaplan, University of New Mexico ; Michael D. Gurven, University of California, Santa Barbara

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