Irma T. Elo
Greg L. Drevenstedt

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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe trends in sex differences in mortality in young adulthood and in middle age among African Americans and whites in the United States between 1960 and 1995. We examine trends in all-cause mortality and estimate the contribution of leading causes of death to the change in the sex difference in mortality over time. Between 1960 and 1995 the sex difference in mortality increased for African Americans and whites at ages 15-39 and declined for whites but increased for African Americans at ages 40-64. Our results reveal considerable variation in the sex difference in mortality by cause of death as well as in the contribution various causes of death make to the change in the sex mortality difference over time.

Author's affiliation
Irma T. Elo
University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
Greg L. Drevenstedt
University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Keywords
cause of death, mortality, USA

Word count (Main text)
9363

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