Description: Shows how to use personal information such as medical history, family characteristics, etc. in a logical statistical fashion for the purpose of modifying an existing mortality table to reflect the collected underwriting information.

Description: This paper reviews data from the accident study for years 1930-1935 to see if there are any relationships between disabled worker mortality and standard mortality that might endure to the present. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1990 Vol. 1.

Description: The differences between select and ultimate insurance mortality are usually explained in terms of: 1. deterioration of a person's physical condition which occurs due to aging, and 2. anti-selection which occurs as some policyholders allow their coverage to lapse [i.e., those policyholders who find their health has become poor keep their coverage, while those who remain healthy discontinue their insurance]. This paper explores the differences in mortality between companies related to the differences in lapse rates of the companies.

Description: These are presentation slides to supplement, Mortality Under Standard Individuality Life Insurance Between 1999–2002 Anniversaries from ARCH, January 2006.

Description: There are many investigations probing the relationship between health outcomes [such as mortality rate, fertility rate] and economic variables [such as rise in income] and other variables [such as level of education, availability of clean water]. Usually, these results are demonstrated using data from countries where economic conditions are improving over time along with health outcomes. This paper studies the links between health risks and the current economic conditions in Mexico where general mortality conditions improved during the period 1980-2000 but income fell.

Description: In this paper the author discusses the use of splines in graduation and offers a possible improvement of the graduation methods used for the English Life Tables. He offers some illustrations of his ideas. From ACTUARIAL RESEARCH CLEARING HOUSE 1980, VOL. 2.

Description: In this paper population mortality rates are used to explore the question of whether a biologically determined maximum age actually exists for the human species. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: This is the abstract of the referenced paper which studies the mortality of left-handed baseball players versus that of right-handed players by examining the times and ages of death of more than 6,000 players who died before 1990. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994, VOL. 1.

Description: Presents a theoretical basis for a computerized methodology for estimating biological age - a measure of time to death.

Description: Provides an in-depth review of Canadian occupational mortality and morbidity - disability - experience. This includes population and insured data up to 1981.