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Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults : Some Method.... Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults : Some Methodological Approaches and Substantive Analyses, Hardcover by Behrman, Jere R.; Sickles, Robin C.; Taubman, Paul, ISBN 0792382862, ISBN-13 9780792382867, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Considers an integrated approach to investigating determinants and correlates of mortality in the US, integrating modeling, micro data, and modern econometric techniques. Research is based on a random longitudinal sample of 11,000 household heads who were between the ages of 58 and 63 in 1969 and reinterviewed biennially through 1979. A number of examples of applications are included, with some explorations of the robustness of the results under alternative assumptions. For those in the social science research community. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()