Childhood Exposure to Disease and Old Age Mortality: Long-Term Perspectives from the Nineteenth Century • George Alter, Indiana University ; Michel Oris, Université de Genève

Economic Well-Being among Elderly Couples in Marriage and Cohabitation: What Developed Countries Can Learn from Developing Countries like Mexico • Gilbert Brenes, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Social and Economic Influences on Older Adults’ Preparations for End-of-Life Health Care Needs • Deborah Carr, Rutgers University ; Dmitry Khodyakov, Rutgers University

Projections of the Older Population: An Examination of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Projections over Time • Michelle Cheuk, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

How to Get a Robust Estimation of the Modal Length of Life? • Siu Lan Karen Cheung, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) ; Graziella Caselli, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Active Life Expectancy and Functional Health Transitions among Filipino Older People • Grace T. Cruz, University of the Philippines ; Yasuhiko Saito, Nihon University ; Josefina Natividad, University of the Philippines

Elderly Population in Puerto Rico: Sociodemographic Characteristics among the Poor and Non-Poor • Vivianna M. De Jesus, University of Puerto Rico

Factors Associated with Maintaining IADL Independence: Application of Latent Trajectory Modeling • Hiroko H. Dodge, University of Pittsburgh ; Mary Ganguli

Medicare and Longevity in International Perspective • William H. Dow, University of California, Berkeley ; Allan Parnell, Cedar Grove Institute

Examining the Relation between Gender Disparity in Health and Employment, Education, and Family Roles: Evidence from Taiwan • Gang-Hua Fan

From Divergence to Convergence in Sex Differentials in Adult Mortality in Developed Countries • Patrick Gerland, United Nations

Life Time Mortality of Men with Normal and with Subnormal Sperm Counts • Sabine Groos, University of Marburg ; Walter Krause, University of Marburg

Obesity, Social and Demographic Context, and the Human Dopamine Receptor d4 (Drd4) Gene • Guang Guo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Kari North ; Seulki Choi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gender Differences in Social Contact after Spousal Loss • Jung-Hwa Ha, University of Michigan

African Americans Mortality, Health and Health Care Utilization • Mian B. Hossain, Morgan State University ; Laurencia S. Hutton, Morgan State University ; Yvonne Bronner, Morgan State University

Mortality Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity: Estimates from California • Hans Johnson, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) ; Joseph M. Hayes, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)

Life Course Determinants of Racial Inequality at Older Ages • Joan R. Kahn, University of Maryland ; Anthony Hatch, University of Maryland

Neighborhood Context and Access to Healthcare: Does Residential Instability Matter? • Toshiko Kaneda, Population Reference Bureau ; James B. Kirby, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

A Comparative Analysis of Ageing and Socio-Economic Policies, between Tajikistan and India • Alisher Khaydarov, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Asian New Immigrants and Health • Jibum Kim, University of Chicago ; Talya Salant, University of Chicago

Family and Household Composition and Health: Mechanisms and Moderators over the Life Course • Tracey A. LaPierre, Duke University

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Chronic Conditions on Wealth Change • Jinkook Lee, Ohio State University ; Hyungsoo Kim, University of Kentucky

Low Socioeconomic Status, Infection, and Heart Disease Risk Across the Lifecourse • Dawn Alley, University of Southern California

Birth Spacing and Sibling Health Inequality at Birth • Aparna Lhila, Cornell University

The Long Term Effect of Famine on Chinese Adult Mortality: A Cohort Analysis • Yong Li, Johns Hopkins University

Body Mass Index and Health among the Union Army Veterans • Claudia Linares, University of Chicago ; Dejun Su, University of Chicago

Provincial Mortality of Chinese Oldest Old • Hui Liu, University of Texas at Austin

Survival Convergence and the Preceding Mortality Crossover for Two Population Subgroups • Xian Liu, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) ; Charles Engel, Jr., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) ; Han Kang, Department of Veterans Affairs

Military Service and (Dis)Continuity in the Life Course: Evidence on Disadvantage and Mortality from the HRS and Ahead • Andrew S. London, Syracuse University ; Janet Wilmoth, Syracuse University

Family and Suicide: Gender Differences in the Effect of Children on Elevated Suicide Rates Following Spousal Loss • Patrick Lusyne, Ghent University ; Hilary Page, Ghent University

Retirement Behavior in Indonesia • Douglas McKee, University of California, Los Angeles

The Status and Availability of Data on Centenarians: What Do We Have and What We Would like to Get? • James W. McNally, University of Michigan

Social Security and Elderly Mortality • Cristian Meghea, American College of Radiology

Migrants in the EU: Welfare in Old Age • Mahmood Messkoub, Leeds University

Poverty and Mental Health across the Adult Life Course • Jennifer Moren-Cross, Duke University

The Role of Demographic Changes in the Decline of Suicide in Sweden • Julianne Ohlander, Pennsylvania State University

Neighborhood Effects on Primary Care Access • Julia C. Prentice, Boston University

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Expectation of Length of Life: A Study of Older Adults • Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Bowling Green State University ; Zhenmei Zhang, Bowling Green State University

International Migration Experience and Standard of Living in Old Age • Mariano Sana, Louisiana State University ; Chiung-Yin Hu, Louisiana State University

Joint Retirement Decisions of Married Men and Women in Canada • Grant Schellenberg, Statistics Canada ; Bali Ram, Statistics Canada ; Martin Turcotte, Statistics Canada

Older Health, Living Arrangements, and Family Support in China • Manisha Sengupta, U.S. Census Bureau ; Wan He, U.S. Census Bureau ; Kaiti Zhang, China Research Center on Aging ; Ping Guo, China Research Center

Balancing Work and Family Responsibility: Provision of Transfers from Late-Middle-Aged Working Adult Children to Their Elderly Mothers • Ching-Yi A. Shieh, University of Maryland

Life Cycle Aspirations for Goods, Family and Work • Anke Zimmermann, University of Southern California

Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts • Kosali I. Simon, Cornell University ; John Moran, Syracuse University

The Mental Health of Men: Profiles and Life Trajectories of Urban American Fathers • Marilyn Sinkewicz, Columbia University

The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Disaggregated Disability Trajectories among Older Adults in the United States • Miles G. Taylor, Duke University

Diabetes, Functional Status and Resource Access: A Binational Comparison of Mexican Origin Elderly • Jennifer J. Tovar, University of Texas at Austin

Contemporary Kinship: Family Composition Effects on Resources for Older Americans • Sarah Walchuk, University of California, Berkeley

Tobacco Use among 13-15 Year Old Students in the Philippines, 2000-2003 • Nathan R. Jones, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ; Marina Miguel-Baquilod, World Health Organization (WHO) ; Burke Fishburn, World Health Organization (WHO) ; Charles Warren, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ; Jonathan Santos, World Health Organization (WHO) ; Samira Asma, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Life Satisfaction, Self-Rated Health, and Mortality in Taiwanese Elderly • Li-Shou Yang, University of Michigan ; Mary Beth Ofstedal, University of Michigan ; Shu-Hui Lin, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan

The Effects of Grandparent Care on Children’s Developmental Outcomes • Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, New York University ; Rebecca Glauber, New York University

Coresidence between Older Parents and Adult Children and Changes over Time: The Impact of Health and Socio-Demographic Factors • Vanessa Yong, Brown University

Does the Present Allocation of Kidney Transplants in the US Maximize the Gain in Total Life Expectancy in the Potential Recipient Population? • Monique Zimmermann-Stenzel, University of Marburg

Out-Migration of Young Adults and Living Arrangements of the Elderly in Rural China: The Case of Chaohu • Wenjuan Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University ; Merril Silverstein, University of Southern California ; Zhen Cong, University of Southern California

Anticipation and Long Tern Decisions for the Elderly Americans: Determinants of Parent-Child Proximity • Yiduo Zhang, Johns Hopkins University

Sexual Life and Self-Assessed Health: Is There a Link? A Study on Chinese Adults • Yingying Zhou, University of Washington