Session 52: Issues in the Measurement of Mortality

Thursday, March 29 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM O'Neill 4th floor

Chair: Douglas Ewbank, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Ryan D. Edwards, Queens College (CUNY)

1.	Record Measures of Longevity  •  Vladimir Canudas-Romo, University of California, Berkeley; John R. Wilmoth, United Nations

2.	The Narrowing Sex Gap in Life Expectancy: Effects of Sex Differences in the Age Pattern of Mortality  •  Dana A. Glei, University of California, Berkeley; Shiro Horiuchi, Rockefeller University

3.	Evaluating the Performance of Death Distribution Methods for Estimating Death Registration Completeness: Applications to Data from High-Income Countries  •  Kevin J.A. Thomas, Harvard University

4.	Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death  •  Gary King, Harvard University; Ying Lu, University of Colorado at Boulder

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