1. Parental Socioeconomic Status and Children’s Early Life Mortality Risk in the 21st Century United States • David Braudt , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Elizabeth Lawrence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Andrea Tilstra, University of Colorado Boulder; Richard G. Rogers, University of Colorado Boulder; Robert Hummer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2. Preparing for an Uncertain Economy: How Occupational Expectations, Academic Preparation, and Labor Market Fluctuations Predict Suicide by Midlife • Jamie Carroll , University of Texas at Austin; Alicia Duncombe, University of Texas at Austin; Anna S. Mueller, University of Memphis; Chandra Muller, University of Texas at Austin; John Robert Warren, University of Minnesota.

3. Rethinking Mass Education and Population Health: Vertical, Horizontal, and Integrative Educational Expansion and Child Mortality in a Cross-National Panel • Ross Macmillan , Universita Bocconi; Jessica Gagete Miranda.

4. Social Status, War, Medical Knowledge, and the Timing of Life Expectancy Improvements Among Germanic Scholars Over the 15th–19th Centuries • Robert Stelter , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; David de la Croix, Université Catholique de Louvain; Mikko Myrskyla, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.