Session 169:
Gender and Health Risks over the Life Course
Chair: Marilyn Sinkewicz, Columbia University
Discussant: Haslyn Hunte, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Discussant: Katharina Pyka, University of Marburg
Timing to Retire – Timing to Die? A Prospective Cohort Study on The Effects of Early Retirement and Long Term Survival. • Hilke Brockmann, Jacobs University Bremen ; Rolf Mueller, Universitat Bremen
Gender Difference in the Long-Term Impacts of Famine • Ren Mu, Texas A&M University ; Xiaobo Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Missing Men: The Direct Mortality Impacts of Firearm Violence in Colombia, 1979-2005 • Brodie Ferguson, Stanford University ; Jorge A Restrepo, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá ; James H. Jones, Stanford University
Can Changing Patterns in Smoking Prevalence among Women and Men Explain the Narrowing Gender Gap in Life Expectancy? A Cross-National Perspective • Roland Rau, Duke University ; Marleen Dettmann, Robert Koch Institute
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