1 Introduction.- 1.1 General Categories of Causes of Differential Life Expectancies among Groups and Over Time: Genetics, Environment, and Behaviors.- 1.2 Why are the Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death of Interest?.- 1.3 Concerns and Results of This Book.- 1.4 Methodology.- 1.5 Organization of This Book.- 2 The optimal choice of health and mortality.- 2.1 Previous Models.- 2.2 The Retirement History Survey and Variable Construction.- 2.3 New Estimates of Utility and Health Production Parameters.- 2.4 Conclusion.- Tables.- 3 Statistical techniques for estimation of hazard functions.- 3.1 Introduction to Hazard Models.- 3.2 Estimation of Survival Hazard Models with Heterogeneity.- 3.3 Monte Carlo Results.- Tables.- 4 Mortality hazard estimates from the dorn sample: smoking, occupational risks, birth cohort, functional form and frailty.- 4.1 Previous Mortality Studies.- 4.2 The Dorn Sample.- 4.3 Robustness of Estimates Over Time, Functional Form, and with Unobserved Heterogeneity.- 4.4 More Detailed Cohort Effects.- 4.5 Maximum Penalized Likelihood Estimators.- 4.6 Starting the Analysis Later.- 4.7 Conclusion.- Tables.- Figures.- 5 Mortality hazard estimates from the retirement history survey: education, pensions, and marital status and black-white and gender differences.- 5.1 Mortality and Hazard Function Results for Men.- 5.2 Black-White Mortality Inequalities for Males.- 5.3 Mortality Hazard Model for Women.- 5.4 Conclusion.- Tables.- Figures.- 6 Private rates of return on social security and their relation to mortality for groups defined by socioeconomic characteristics.- 6.1 Prior Research on Returns to Social Security System.- 6.2 Estimated Rates of Returns to Investments in Social Security.- 6.3 Analysis of RHS Data.- 6.4 Differences by Socioeconomic Characteristics.- 6.5 Results from Two Cohorts in the PSID.- 6.6 Conclusion.- Appendix 6.A Procedures Used for Calculating Mortality Adjusted Rates of Return from Social Security from RHS-SSA Data.- Tables.- 7 Conclusion.- References.- Author Index.
