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Life expectancy

A simplified approach to measuring national gender inequality

Gijsbert Stoet, David C. Geary

Closing the Gap: Increases in Life Expectancy among Treated HIV-Positive Individuals in the United States and Canada

Hasina Samji, Angela Cescon, [ ... ], for The North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) of IeDEA

Gender in the time of COVID-19: Evaluating national leadership and COVID-19 fatalities

Leah C. Windsor, Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, [ ... ], Reed Wood

Life Expectancy at Birth for People with Serious Mental Illness and Other Major Disorders from a Secondary Mental Health Care Case Register in London

Chin-Kuo Chang, Richard D. Hayes, [ ... ], Robert Stewart

Assessing the impact of the “one-child policy” in China: A synthetic control approach

Stuart Gietel-Basten, Xuehui Han, Yuan Cheng

Excess mortality due to Covid-19? A comparison of total mortality in 2020 with total mortality in 2016 to 2019 in Germany, Sweden and Spain

Bernd Kowall, Fabian Standl, [ ... ], Andreas Stang

Trends in Longevity in the Americas: Disparities in Life Expectancy in Women and Men, 1965-2010

Ian R. Hambleton, Christina Howitt, [ ... ], U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR)

Mortality postponement and compression at older ages in human cohorts

David McCarthy, Po-Lin Wang

Longevity of outstanding sporting achievers: Mind versus muscle

An Tran-Duy, David C. Smerdon, Philip M. Clarke

Waist-to-Height Ratio Is More Predictive of Years of Life Lost than Body Mass Index

Margaret Ashwell, Les Mayhew, Jon Richardson, Ben Rickayzen

Do "big guys" really die younger? An examination of height and lifespan in former professional basketball players

Srdjan Lemez, Nick Wattie, Joseph Baker

Assessing the potential impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy

Guillaume Marois, Raya Muttarak, Sergei Scherbov

Why Men Matter: Mating Patterns Drive Evolution of Human Lifespan

Shripad D. Tuljapurkar, Cedric O. Puleston, Michael D. Gurven

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