Researchers
Shripad Tuljapurkar - Professor of Biology and the Dean & Virginia Morrison Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University at http://popstudies.stanford.edu/

This project aims to assemble a US mortality data series with county-level identifiers and assemble data on covariates at the county level (education, income, health care). Researchers will also analyze changes in variance at adult death and the age distribution of deaths within counties as well as among them. In addition they will assemble a UK mortality data set at the local area level and analyze change in the age distribution of deaths within and among local areas. This pilot will help illuminate the nature of inequalities in mortality within and between the US and UK, especially the puzzling differences that have been reported in the literature. This pilot will also prepare us for future international comparisons of the nature and source of mortality inequality within and between countries.

Contact
Nomita Divi