High life expectancy and reversed socioeconomic gradients of elderly people in Mexico and Costa Rica
<b>Background</b>: Some existing estimates suggest, controversially, that life expectancy at age 60 (LE60) of Latin American males is exceptionally high. Knowledge of adult mortality in Latin America is often based on unreliable statistics or indirect demographic methods. <b>Obj...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2018-01-01
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Online Access: | https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol38/3/ |