Jim Oeppen

TL;DR: The evidence presented in this paper suggests that the apparent leveling off of life expectancy in various countries is an artifact of laggards catching up and leaders falling behind, not a sign that life expectancy is approaching its limit.

TL;DR: It is shown that in natural fertility populations the relationship between fertility and late–life mortality cannot be studied correctly without considering the effects of differences in health and of mortality selection during childbearing ages because these two effects lead to a dampening of the true relationship.

TL;DR: It is found that the SM correlation pattern was relatively stable only in certain periods of a population's survival history, indicating the need for revision of traditional concepts establishing the relationship between physiological and demographic patterns of aging.

TL;DR: Regression on 17 country-series suggests that e† correlates with income inequality across countries but not across time, and suggests that factors affecting overall mortality decrease differ from those responsible for excess lifetime losses in the United States compared with other countries.

TL;DR: The changes in the patterns of mortality decline in Sweden between 1861 and 1999 are investigated and the pattern of SM correlation was relatively stable only at certain phases of the survival history of male and female populations.