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Old age mortality in Japan
— does the socioeconomic gradient interact with gender and age? | | Author(s) | Jersey Liang, Joan Bennett, Neal Krause |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 5, September 2002 |
| Pages | pp S294-S307 |
| Keywords | Death rate [statistics] ; Economic status [elderly] ; Over 70s ; Older men ; Older women ; Correlation ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Socioeconomic inequalities in old age mortality in Japan are examined, with specific emphasis on how inequalities interact with gender and age. Data come from a 5-wave panel study of some 2,200 Japanese people aged 60+ conducted between 1987 and 1999. Hazard rate models involving time-varying covariates were used to ascertain the direct and indirect effects of socioeconomic status (SES). In contrast to previous findings from Western developed nations, there is an educational crossover effect on mortality in older men, in that, at advanced age, those with less education live longer than those with higher education. On the other hand, there is some evidence that educational differences in the risk of dying tend to converge in the 70-79 age group. More interestingly, there is a crossover in the effect of education among the 80+ age group. Possible explanations for age differences in the educational crossover include selective survival and other cohort effects. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021107215 A |
| Classmark | S5: F:W: BBK: BC: BD: 49: 7DT |
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