Objective To assess the extent to which observed associations between income inequality and mortality at population level are statistical artifacts. Design Indirect “what if” simulation using observed risks of mortality at individual level as a function of income to construct hypothetical state-level mortality specific for age and sex as if the statistical artifact argument were… Continue reading Relation between income inequality and mortality: empirical demonstration

We consider the division of caregiving efforts among the children of older, functionally limited parents. Our model of parental care assumes that care decisions are made in the context of an extended family, with each child taking into account not only the parent's needs and the child's own circumstances, but also the characteristics and actual… Continue reading The division of family labor: Care for the elderly parents

Record linkage is a process of pairing records from two files and trying to select the pairs that belong to the same entity. The basic framework uses a match weight to measure the likelihood of a correct match and a decision rule to assign record pairsas “true” or “false” match pairs. Weight thresholds for selecting… Continue reading A case study of recorded linkage