Session 52:
Issues in the Measurement of Mortality
Chair: Douglas Ewbank, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Ryan D. Edwards, Queens College (CUNY)
Record Measures of Longevity Vladimir Canudas-Romo, University of California, Berkeley ; John R. Wilmoth, United Nations
The Narrowing Sex Gap in Life Expectancy: Effects of Sex Differences in the Age Pattern of Mortality Dana A. Glei, University of California, Berkeley ; Shiro Horiuchi, Rockefeller University
Evaluating the Performance of Death Distribution Methods for Estimating Death Registration Completeness: Applications to Data from High-Income Countries Kevin J.A. Thomas, Harvard University
Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death Gary King, Harvard University ; Ying Lu, University of Colorado at Boulder
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