A Cause-of-Death Decomposition of Young Adult Excess Mortality.

We propose a method to decompose the young adult mortality hump by cause of death. This method is based on a flexible shape decomposition of mortality rates that separates cause-of-death contributions to the hump from senescent mortality. We apply the method to U.S. males and females from 1959 to 20...

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Published in:	Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 957 - 979
Main Authors:	Remund, Adrien, Camarda, Carlo G., Riffe, Tim
Format:	journal article
Published:	Springer Nature Jun2018
Subjects:	United States Young adults Mortality Differences Socioeconomics Homicide Cohort analysis
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