Hoffmann, Rasmus - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004
The impact of SES on mortality is an established fact. I examine if this impact decreases with increasing age. Most … with decreasing health. My first finding, that health rather than age is the equalizer combined with the second finding …, that good health itself is unequally distributed, leads to the conclusion that in old age, the impact of SES is transferred …