Saturday, May 2 / 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM   •   Aqua 314

Session 194:
Life Expectancy, Inequality, Migration and Health in Latin American and Asian Middle Aged to Elderly Populations

Chair: Mary McEniry, University of Michigan
Discussant: Georgiana Bostean, Chapman University

  1. Why Does Costa Rica Outperform the United States in Life Expectancy? A Tale of Two Inequality GradientsWilliam H. Dow, University of California, Berkeley ; Luis Rosero-Bixby, Universidad de Costa Rica

  2. Biological Risks among the Middle-Aged and Elderly in China: Gender, Education, and Urban-Rural DifferencesYuan Zhang, University of Southern California ; Eileen Crimmins, University of Southern California

  3. Educational Gradients and Pathways of Disability Onset among Older Mexicans: Context, Cohort and SexJoseph Saenz, University of Texas at Galveston ; Rebeca Wong, University of Texas at Galveston

  4. Migration and Later Life HealthDirgha J. Ghimire, University of Michigan ; Prem B. Bhandari, University of Michigan

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