Friday, April 12 / 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Meeting Room 301 (Level 3)

Session 182
Age Patterns of Mortality

Chair: Marilia Nepomuceno, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Discussant: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

1. Parametric Models of Infant MortalityJonas Schöley , Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics.

2. Modeling Age-Specific Mortality by Detailed Age Between 0–5 Years: Results From a Log-Quadratic Model Applied to High-Quality Vital Registration DataMichel Guillot , University of Pennsylvania; Julio E. Romero Prieto, Banco de la República, Colombia; Andrea Verhulst, University of Pennsylvania; Patrick Gerland, United Nations Population Division.

3. Health at the Onset of Old AgeArda Aktas , International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Sergei Scherbov, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Warren C. Sanderson, Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY).

4. Centenarian Survival: Stagnating of Improving?Jesus-Adrian Alvarez , Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark; James W. Vaupel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Max Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging.

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