Subject: Sociology and Economics ISSN: 1728-4414 ISSN Online: 1728-5305 (Online Edition without reprints) Successor to Demographische Informationen

Editor: Tomáš Sobotka Managing Editor: Maria Winkler-Dworak

Frontmatter
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Authors for this volume
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Contents
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Graziella Caselli - Marc Luy
Determinants of unusual and differential longevity: an introduction page 1
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s1
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Mortality deceleration is not informative of unobserved heterogeneity in open groups page 15
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s15
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Shiro Horiuchi - Nadine Ouellette - Siu Lan Karen Cheung - Jean-Marie Robine
Modal age at death: lifespan indicator in the era of longevity extension page 37
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s37
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Jon Anson
Surviving to be the oldest old—destiny or chance? page 71
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s71
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Michel Poulain - Anne Herm - Gianni Pes
The Blue Zones: areas of exceptional longevity around the world page 87
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s87
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Luis Rosero-Bixby - William H. Dow - David H. Rehkopf
The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: a high longevity island for elderly males page 109
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s109
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Sebastian Klüsener - Rembrandt D. Scholz
Regional hot spots of exceptional longevity in Germany page 137
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s137
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Richard G. Rogers - Patrick M. Krueger - Richard Miech - Elizabeth M. Lawrence
Lifetime abstainers and mortality risk in the United States page 165
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s165
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Maria Winkler-Dworak - Heiner Kaden
The longevity of academicians: evidence from the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig page 185
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s185
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Morgan E. Levine - Eileen M. Crimmins
Evidence of resiliency among long-lived smokers page 205
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s205
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Ethan J. Sharygin - Michel Guillot
Ethnicity, russification and excess mortality in Kazakhstan page 219
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s219
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Graziella Caselli - Rosa Maria Lipsi - Enrica Lapucci - James W. Vaupel
Exploring Sardinian longevity: women fertility and parental transmission of longevity page 247
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s247
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Valérie Jarry - Alain Gagnon - Robert Bourbeau
Maternal age, birth order and other early-life factors: a family-level approach to exploring exceptional survival page 267
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s267
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Leonid A. Gavrilov - Natalia S. Gavrilova
Determinants of exceptional human longevity: new ideas and findings page 295
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s295
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Luisa Salaris - Nicola Tedesco - Michel Poulain
Familial transmission of human longevity: a population-based study in an inland village of Sardinia (Italy), 1850–2010 page 325
doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s325
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