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Research Studies in Pension

Factor Affecting Retirement Mortality (FARM)–Bibliography

This FARM site consists of

• an Introduction
• an Abstract
• a Bibliography of research papers
• a collection of Summaries of the research papers.

Use the Table of Summaries to link to the summaries either by author or by risk factor.

Abstract | Introduction | Table of Summaries

Bibliography

 

Summaries of Papers–Papers Reviewed

1. Adler, Nancy E., Thomas Boyce, Margaret A. Chesney, Sheldon Cohen, Susan Folkman, S. Leonard Syme (1994): Socioeconomic status and health: the challenge of the gradient. American Psychologist, 49:15–24
2. Allison, David B., Kevin R. Fontaine, JoAnn E. Manson, June Stevens, Theodore B. VanItallie, (1999): Annual deaths attributable to obesity in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), October 27, 1999, 282(16)
3. Attanasio, Orazio P. & Carl Emmerson (2001): Differential mortality in the UK. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Working Paper 8241.
4. Benjamin B & A. S. Soliman (1993): Mortality on the move: methods of mortality projection.
5. Brown, Robert L. (1988): Theories of mortality. Education and Examination Committee of the Society of Actuaries, Course 161 Study Note 161–202–88.
6. Brown, Robert L. (1997): Issues in the modeling of mortality at advanced ages. Research Report 97–05, Institute of Insurance and Pension Research, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
7. Brown, Robert L. & John Di Meo (1995): Mortality rates by marital status: a discussion. Research report 95–07, Institute of Insurance and Pension Research, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
8. Bucher, H. C. & D. R. Ragland (1995): Socioeconomic indicators and mortality from coronary heart disease and cancer: A 22–year follow–up of middle–aged men. American Journal of Public Health, 85:1231–1236.
9. Deaton, Angus (May 1999): Inequalities in income and inequalities in health. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 7141.
10. Deaton, Angus & Darren Lubotsky (July 2001): Mortality, inequality and race in American cities and states. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 8370.
11. Deaton, Angus & Christina Paxson (May 1999): Mortality, education, income, and inequality among American cohorts. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 7140.
12. Elo, Irma T. & Samuel H. Preston (1997): Racial and ethnic differences in mortality at older ages. Pp.10–42 In Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health of Older Americans , edited by L. Martin, and B. Soldo, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
13. Horiuchi, Shiro & John R. Wilmoth (1998): Deceleration in the age pattern of mortality at older ages. Demography, 35(4):391-412.
14. Hummer, Robert A. (1996): Black–White differences in health and mortality: a review and conceptual model. The Sociological Quarterly, 37(1):105–125.
15. Hurd, Michael, Daniel McFadden, Angela Merrill (December 1999): Predictors of Mortality Among Elderly. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 7440.
16. Judge, Ken (1995): Income distribution and life expectancy: a critical appraisal. British Medical Journal, 311:1282–1285.
17. Judge, Ken, Jo–Ann Mulligan, Michaela Benzeval (1998): Income, inequality and population health. Social Science and Medicine, 46:567–579.
18. Kallan, Jeffrey (1997): Effects of sociodemographic variables on adult mortality in the United States: comparisons by sex, age, and cause of death. Social Biology, 44(1–2):136–147.
19. Kark, Jeremy D., Galia Shemo, Yechiel Friedlander, Oz Martin, Orly Manor, S. H. Blondheim (1996): Does religious observance promote health? Mortality in secular vs religious kibbutzim in Israel. American Journal of Public Health, 86(3):341–346.
20. Kennedy, Bruce P., Ichiro Kawachi, Deborah Prothrow–Stith (1996): Income distribution and mortality: cross sectional ecological study of the Robin Hood index in the United States. British Medical Journal, 312:1004–1007.
21. Kestenbaum, Bert (1997): Recent mortality of the oldest old, from Medicare data. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C., not published, but see Kestenbaum Bert (1992) A Description of the Extreme Aged Population Based on Improved Medicare Enrollment Data, Demography, 29 (565–580).
22. Knox, David & Andrew Tomlin (1997): An analysis of Pensioner Mortality by pre– retirement income. Working Paper Series No. 44. Centre for Actuarial Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.
23. Lantz, Paula M., James S. House, James M. Lepkowski, David R. Williams, Richard P. Mero, Jieming Chen (1998): Socioeconomic factors, health behaviors and mortality. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 279:1703–1708.
24. LeClere, Felicia, Richard G. Rogers, Kimberly Peters (1997): Ethnicity and mortality in the United States: individual and community correlates. Social Forces, 76:169–198.
25. Lee P. (1995): Measuring social inequalities in health: introduction. Public Health Reports, 110:302–305.
26. Lobmayer, Peter & Richard G. Wilkinson (2000): Income inequality and mortality in 14 developed countries. Sociology of Health & Illness, 22:401–414, Trafford Center for Medical Research, University of Sussex.
27. Montgomery, L., J. Kiely, G. Pappas (1996): The effects of poverty, race, and family structure on U.S. children's health: data from the NHIS, 1978 through 1980 and 1989 and 1991. American Journal of Public Health, 86(10):1401–1405.
28. Musick, Marc A. (1996): Religion and subjective health among black and white elders. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 37(3):221–237.
29. Pappas, Gregory, Susan Queen, Wilber Hadden, Gail Fisher (1993): The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United States, 1960 and 1986. New England Journal of Medicine, 329(2):103–109.
30. Preston, Samuel & Irma Elo (1995): Are educational differentials in adult mortality increasing in the United States? Journal of Aging and Health, 7:476–496.
31. Rogers, Richard G. (1995): Marriage, sex, and mortality. Journal of Marriage and Family, 57:515–526.
32. Rogers, Richard G. (1996): The effects of family composition, health, and social support linkages on mortality. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 37(4):326–338.
33. Rogers, Richard G., Robert A. Hummer, Charles B. Nam (1999): Cigarette Smoking and Mortality. In Living and Dying in the USA: Behavioral, Health, and Social Differences of Adult Mortality. Academic Press.
34. Rogers, Richard G., Hummer, Robert A., Nam, Charles B. (1999) The effects of basic socioeconomic factors on mortality. In Living and Dying in the USA: Behavioral, Health and Social Differences of Adult Mortality: Academic Press.
35. Sorlie, P.D., E. Backland, J.B. Keller (1995): U.S. mortality by economic, demographic, and social characteristics: the National Longitudinal Mortality Study. American Journal of Public Health, 85(7):949–956.
36. Statistical Bulletin (January 1975): Socio–economic mortality differentials. Metropolitan Life.
37. Thun, Michael J., Richard Peto, Alan D. Lopez, Jane H. Monaco, Sarah J. Henley, Clark W. Heath Jr, & Richard Doll, (1997): Alcohol consumption and mortality among middle–aged and elderly U.S. adults. The New England Journal of Medicine, 337(24):1705–1712.
38. Travato, Frank & N. K. Lalu (1998): Contribution of cause–specific mortality to changing sex differences in life expectancy: seven nations case study. Social Biology, 45:1–20.
39. Valliant, George E. & Kenneth Mukamal (2001): Successful Aging. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158(6):839–847.
40. Vallin, Jacques (1995): Can sex differentials in mortality be explained by socioeconomic mortality differentials? Adult Mortality in Developed Nations, edited by A. Lopes, G. Caselli and T. Valkonen. pp. 179–200. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
41. Wald, N. J. & H. C. Watt (1997): Prospective study of effect of switching from cigarettes to pipes or cigars on mortality from three smoking related diseases. British Medical Journal, 314:1860–1863.
42. Wei, Ming, James B. Kampert, Carolyn E. Barlow, Milton Z. Nichaman, Larry W. Gibbons, Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr., Steven N. Blair (October 27, 1999): Relationship between low cardiorespiratory fitness and mortality in normal–weight, overweight and obese men. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 282(16):1547–1553.
43. Wilkinson, Richard G. (1997): Commentary: Income inequality summarises the health burden of individual relative deprivation. British Medical Journal, 314:1727–1728.
44. Williams, David R. & Chiquita Collins (1995): U.S. socio–economic and racial differences in health: patterns and explanations. Annual Review of Sociology, 21:349–386.
45. Wolfson, Michael, Geoff Rowe, Jane F. Gentleman, and Monica Tomiak (1990): Earnings and Death–Effects Over a Quarter Century. Analytical Studies Branch, Statistics Canada, Social & Economic Studies Division No. 30.