Gender-Specific Life Expectancy in Europe 1850-2010

1 - Contents [Seite 6]
2 - Introduction - The drifting apart of gender-specific life expectancies in Europe 1850-2010 [Seite 8]
3 - Germany and Austria [Seite 18]
3.1 - The impact of biological factors on sex differences in life expectancy: insights gained from a natural experiment [Seite 18]
3.2 - The gender gap in life expectancy in Austria and the change in the working environment (c. 1900-1950) [Seite 48]
3.3 - The reduction of the gender gap in life expectancy in Austria since the 1980s: an educational phenomenon? [Seite 66]
4 - Western Europe, Belgium and the Netherlands [Seite 74]
4.1 - Gender specific mortality trends over the epidemiological transition: a view from the British mainland 1850-2000 [Seite 74]
4.2 - The evolution of the gender gap in life expectancy in Belgium and the smoking epidemic (1841 to 2013) [Seite 90]
4.3 - The mortality gender gap in the Netherlands 1850-2000 [Seite 112]
5 - Sweden [Seite 132]
5.1 - Gender-specific life expectancies in Sweden 1810-1980 [Seite 132]
5.2 - Changes in the gender gap in life expectancy in Sweden: A cohort analysis with the most recent trends [Seite 150]
6 - Switzerland [Seite 168]
6.1 - Evolution of the gender gap in Switzerland [Seite 168]
6.2 - How do causes of death influence the evolution of the gender gap in life expectancies in Switzerland? [Seite 178]
7 - Conclusions - Gender gap similarities and differences in Europe [Seite 188]
8 - Authors [Seite 218]