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Baudisch, A.; Salguero-Gomez, R.; Jones, O. R.; Wrycza, T. F.; Mbeau-Ache, C.; Franco, M.; Colchero, F.:

The pace and shape of senescence in angiosperms

Journal of Ecology 101:3, 596-606 (2013).

Beekman, M.; Blanché, H.; Perola, M.; Hervonen, A.; Bezrukov, V.; Sikora, E.; Flachsbart, F.; Christiansen, L.; de Craen, A. J. M.; Kirkwood, T. B. L.; Rea, I. M.; Poulain, M.; Robine, J.-M.; Valensin, S.; Stazi, M. A.; Passarino, G.; Deiana, L.; Gonos, E. S.; Paternoster, L.; Sørensen, T. I. A.; Tan, Q.; Helmer, Q.; van den Akker, E. B.; Deelen, J.; Martella, F.; Cordell, H. J.; Ayers, K. L.; Vaupel, J. W.; Törnwall, O.; Johnson, T. E.; Schreiber, S.; Lathrop, M.; Skytthe, A.; Westendorp, R. G. J.; Christensen, K.; Gampe, J.; Nebel, A.; Houwing-Duistermaat, J. J.; Slagboom, P. E.; Franceschi, C.:

Genome-wide linkage analysis for human longevity: Genetics of Healthy Aging Study

Aging Cell (2013).

Christensen, K.; Thinggaard, M.; Oksuzyan, A.; Steenstrup, T.; Andersen-Ranberg, K.; Jeune, B.; McGue, M.; Vaupel, J. W.:

The growing population of oldest-old: no evidence of a failure of success

Lancet (2013).

Davison, R. J.; Nicolè, F.; Jacquemyn, H.; Tuljapurkar, S.:

Contributions of covariance: decomposing the components of stochastic population growth in Cypripedium calceolus

American Naturalist 181:3, 410-420 (2013).

DeLong, J. P.; Burger, O.; Hamilton, M. J.:

The UN medium population projection is an unstable equilibrium

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11:2, 65-66 (2013).

Gaillard, J.; Hewison, A. J. M.; Klein, F.; Plard, F.; Douhard, M.; Davison, R. J.; Bonenfant, C.:

How does climate change influence demographic processes of widespread species? Lessons from the comparative analysis of contrasted populations of roe deer

Ecology Letters (2013).

Gerber, T. P.; Perelli-Harris, B.:

Maternity leave in turbulent times: effects on labor market transitions and second births in Russia, 1985-2000

Social Forces (2013).

Glei, D. A.; Goldman, N.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Jdanov, D. A.; Shkolnikova, M. A.; Vaupel, J. W.; Weinstein, M.:

Perceived stress and biological risk: is the link stronger in Russians than in Taiwanese and Americans?

Stress (2013).

Grigoriev, P.; Doblhammer-Reiter, G.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

Trends, patterns, and determinants of regional mortality in Belarus, 1990–2007

Population Studies 67:1, 61-81 (2013).

Kageyama, J.:

Exploring the myth of unhappiness in former communist countries: the roles of the sex gap in life expectancy and the marital status composition

Social Indicators Research 111:1, 327-339 (2013).

Kibele, E.; Jasilionis, D.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

Widening socioeconomic differences in mortality among men aged 65 years and older in Germany

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 67:5, 453-457 (2013).

Kluge, F. A.:

The fiscal impact of population aging in Germany

Public Finance Review 41:1, 37-63 (2013).

Klüsener, S.:

Geburtenraten und Geburtsalter der Mütter im regionalen Vergleich

Nationalatlas aktuell [Elektronische Ressource] 7:4 (2013).

Klüsener, S.; Perelli-Harris, B.; Sanchez Gassen, N. E.:

Spatial aspects of the rise of nonmarital fertility across Europe since 1960: the role of states and regions in shaping patterns of change

European Journal of Population 29:2, 137-165 (2013).

Kramer, B. H.; Schaible, R.:

Colony size explains the lifespan differences between queens and workers in eusocial Hymenoptera

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2013).

Kramer, B. H.; Schaible, R.:

Life span evolution in eusocial workers: a theoretical approach to understanding the effects of extrinsic mortality in a hierarchical system

PLoS One 8:4, e61813-e61813 (2013).

Kreyenfeld, M.; Hornung, A.; Kubisch, K.:

Der deutsche Generations and Gender Survey: einige kritische Betrachtungen zur Validität der Fertilitätsverläufe

Comparative Population Studies 38 (2013).

Le Cunff, Y.; Baudisch, A.; Pakdaman, K.:

How evolving heterogeneity distributions of resource allocation strategies shape mortality patterns

PloS Computational Biology 9:1 (2013).

Lenart, A.:

The moments of the Gompertz distribution and maximum likelihood estimation of its parameters

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal (2013).

Levitis, D.; Burger, O.; Bingaman Lackey, L.:

The human post-fertile lifespan in comparative evolutionary context

Evolutionary Anthropology 22:2, 66-79 (2013).

Margolis, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life satisfaction over the life course

Advances in Life Course Research (2013).

Missov, T. I.:

Gamma-Gompertz life expectancy at birth

Demographic Research 28:9, 259-270 (2013).

Mussino, E.; van Raalte, A. A.:

Immigrant fertility: a comparative study between Italy and Russia

International Migration 51:2, 148-164 (2013).

Myrskylä, M.:

Commentary: Maternal education accentuates girls’ mortality advantage over boys’

International Journal of Epidemiology 42:1, 219-220 (2013).

Myrskylä, M.; Fenelon, A. T.:

Maternal age and offspring adult health: evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Demography (2013).

Myrskylä, M.; Goldstein, J. R.:

Probabilistic forecasting using stochastic diffusion models, with applications to cohort processes of marriage and fertility

Demography 50:1, 237-260 (2013).

Myrskylä, M.; Goldstein, J. R.; Cheng, Y. A.:

New cohort fertility forecasts for the developed world: rises, falls, and reversals

Population and Development Review 39:1, 31-56 (2013).

Myrskylä, M.; Mehta, N.; Chang, V. W.:

Early life exposure to the 1918 Pandemic and old-age mortality by cause of death

American Journal of Public Health (2013).

Myrskylä, M.; Scholz, R. D.:

Reversing East-West mortality difference among German women, and the role of smoking

International Journal of Epidemiology (2013).

Myrskylä, M.; Silventoinen, K.; Tynelius, P.; Rasmussen, F.:

Is later better or worse? Association of advanced parental age with offspring cognitive ability among half a million young Swedish men

American Journal of Epidemiology 177:7, 649-655 (2013).

Oksuzyan, A.; Jeune, B.; Juel, K.; Vaupel, J. W.; Christensen, K.:

Changes in hospitalisation and surgical procedures among the oldest-old: a follow-up study of the entire Danish 1895 and 1905 cohorts from ages 85 to 99 years

Age and Ageing (2013).

Pietrzak, B.; Bednarska, A.; Markowska, M.; Rojek, M.; Szymanska, E.; Slusarczyk, M.:

Behavioural and physiological mechanisms behind extreme longevity in Daphnia

Hydrobiologia (2013).

Sánchez Romero, M.:

The role of demography on per capita output growth and saving rates

Journal of Population Economics (2013).

Sánchez Romero, M.; Patxot, C.; Renteria, E.; Souto, G.:

On the effects of public and private transfers on capital accumulation: some lessons from the NTA aggregates

Journal of Population Economics (2013).

Sánchez Romero, M.; Sambt, J.; Prskawetz, A.:

Quantifying the role of alternative pension reforms on the Austrian economy

Labour Economics 22:Special Issue, 94-114 (2013).

Siewert, U.; Fendrich, K.; Marcus, M.R.P.; Baumeister, S.E.; Doblhammer-Reiter, G.; Scholz, R. D.; Hoffmann, W.:

Future outpatient health-care utilisation in an ageing population: projections up to the year 2020 based on the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP)

Journal of Public Health (2013).

Skytthe, A.; Christiansen, L.; Kyvik, K. O.; Bødker, F. L.; Hvidberg, L.; Petersen, I.; Nielsen. M. M. F.; Bingley, P.; Hjelmborg, J. v.B.; Tan, Q.; Holm, N. V.; Vaupel, J. W.; McGue, M.; Christensen, K.:

The Danish Twin Registry: linking surveys, national registers, and biological information

Twin Research and Human Genetics 16:1, 104-111 (2013).

Sørensen, M.; McGue, M.; Dato, S.; Tan, Q.; Thinggaard, M.; Kleindorp, R.; Beekman, M.; Suchiman, H. E. D.; Jacobsen, R.; Stevnsner, T.; Bohr, V.A.; de Craen, A. J. M.; Westendorp, R. G. J.; Schreiber, S.; Slagboom, P. E.; Nebel, A.; Vaupel, J. W.; Christensen, K.; Christiansen, L.:

Evidence from case-control and longitudinal studies supports associations of genetic variation in APOE, CETP, and IL6 with human longevity

Age 35:2, 487-500 (2013).

Torre, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Income inequality and population health: a panel data analysis on 21 developed countries

Population Studies (2013).

van Raalte, A. A.; Caswell, H.:

Perturbation analysis of indices of lifespan variability

Demography (2013).

van Raalte, A. A.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Lifespan variation by occupational class: compression or stagnation over time?

Demography (2013).

Vaupel, J. W.; Missov, T. I.; Metcalf, C. J. E.:

Optimal semelparity

PLoS One 8:2, e57133-e57133 (2013).

Vaupel, J. W.; Rau, R.:

Research versus rhetoric

Gerontology 59:1, 95-96 (2013).

Willführ, K.; Gagnon, A.:

Are step-parents always evil? Parental death, remarriage, and child survival in demographically saturated Krummhörn (1720-1859) and expanding Québec (1670-1750)

Biodemography & Social Biology (2013).

Willführ, K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Phenotype-environment mismatch due to epigenetic inheritance? Programming the offspring's epigenome and the consequences of migration

American Journal of Human Biology (2013).

Willführ, K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Phenotype-environment mismatch due to epigenetic inheritance? Programming the offspring's epigenome and the consequences of migration

American Journal of Human Biology (2013).

Barthold, J. A.; Myrskylä, M.; Jones, O. R.:

Childlessness drives the sex difference in the association between income and reproductive success of modern Europeans

Evolution and Human Behavior 33:6, 628-638 (2012).

Bastin, S.:

Dynamik alleinerziehender Mutterschaft: Partnerschaftsverläufe in der frühen Elternbiografie

Zeitschrift für Familienforschung Sonderheft 9, 201-228 (2012).

Baudisch, A.:

Birds do it, bees do it, we do it: contributions of theoretical modelling to understanding the shape of ageing across the Tree of Life

Gerontology 58:6, 481-489 (2012).

Baudisch, A.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Getting to the root of aging

Science 338:6107, 618-619 (2012).

Buhr, P.; Kuhnt, A.-K.:

Die kurzfristige Stabilität des Kinderwunsches von Kinderlosen in Ost- und Westdeutschland: eine Analyse mit den ersten beiden Wellen des deutschen Beziehungs- und Familienpanels

Zeitschrift für Familienforschung Sonderheft 2012, 275-297 (2012).

Burger, O.; Baudisch, A.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Human mortality improvement in evolutionary context

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109:44, 18210-18214 (2012).

Burnside, W. R.; Brown, J. H.; Burger, O.; Hamilton, M. J.; Moses, M.; Bettencourt, L. M. A.:

Human macroecology: linking pattern and process in big-picture human ecology

Biological Reviews 87:1, 194-208 (2012).

Camarda, C. G.:

MortalitySmooth: an R package for smoothing Poisson counts with P-splines

Journal of Statistical Software 50:1 (2012).

Christensen, K.; Pedersen, J. K.; Hjelmborg, J. v.B.; Vaupel, J. W.; Stevnsner, T.; Holm, N. V.; Skytthe, A.:

Cancer and longevity - is there a trade-off? A study of cooccurrence in Danish twin pairs born 1900-1918

Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 67A:5, 489-494 (2012).

Colchero, F.; Clark, J.:

Bayesian inference on age-specific survival for censored and truncated data

Journal of Animal Ecology 81:1, 139-149 (2012).

Colchero, F.; Jones, O. R.; Rebke, M.:

BaSTA: an R package for Bayesian estimation of age-specific survival from incomplete mark-recapture/recovery data with covariates

Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3:3, 466-470 (2012).

Creighton, M.; Matthys, C.; Quaranta, L.:

Migrants and the diffusion of low marital fertility in Belgium

Journal of Interdisciplinary History 42:4, 593-614 (2012).

d'Albis, H.; Paul Lau, S.; Sánchez Romero, M.:

Mortality transition and differential incentives for early retirement

Journal of Economic Theory 147:1, 261-283 (2012).

Danko, M. J.; Kozlowski, J.:

Mutation accumulation may only be a minor force in shaping life-history traits, even when reproduction is sexual

PLoS One 7:10, e48302-e48302 (2012).

Danko, M. J.; Kozlowski, J.; Vaupel, J. W.; Baudisch, A.:

Mutation accumulation may be a minor force in shaping life history traits

PLoS One 7:4, e34146-e34146 (2012).

Doblhammer, G.; Kreft, D.; Dethloff, A.:

Gewonne Lebensjahre: langfristige Trends der Sterblichkeit nach Todesursachen in Deutschland und im internationalen Vergleich

Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz 55:4, 448-458 (2012).

García-Ferrer , A.; Gonzalez Prieto, E.; Peña, D.:

A conditionally heteroskedastic independent factor model with an application to financial stock returns

International Journal of Forecasting 28:1, 70-93 (2012).

Goldstein, J. R.:

Historical Addendum to "Life lived equals life left in stationary populations"

Demographic Research 26:7, 167-172 (2012).

Goldstein, J. R.; Cassidy, T.:

How slowing senescence translates into longer life expectancy

Population Studies 66:1, 29-37 (2012).

Grigoriev, P.:

Health crisis and mortality trends by causes of death in Belarus (1965-2008)

Population: English Edition 67:1, 7-38 (2012).

Gruber, S.:

Das MOSAIC-Projekt: der Aufbau einer Datenbank zur Erforschung historischer europäischer Bevölkerungen

Computergenealogie 27:1, 12-15 (2012).

Gruber, S.:

Household composition and marriage patterns in Albania around 1900

Balkanistic Forum 21:1, 101-122 (2012).

Gruber, S.:

Multiple family households east of the Hajnal line: evidence from Albania and Serbia

Journal of Comparative Family Studies 43:3, 373-388 (2012).

Gruber, S.; Szoltysek, M.:

Stem families, joint families, and the European pattern: what kind of a reconsideration do we need?

Journal of Family History 37:1, 105-125 (2012).

Hin, S. C.; Gauthier, A. H.; Goldstein, J. R.; Bühler, C.:

Fertility preferences: what measuring second choices teaches us

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 9.2011, 131-156 (2012).

Jones, O. R.; Wang, J:

A comparison of four methods for detecting weak genetic structure from marker data

Ecology and Evolution 2:5, 1048-1055 (2012).

Klüsener, S.; Szoltysek, M.; Goldstein, J. R.:

Towards an integrated understanding of demographic change and its spatio-temporal dimensions: concepts, data needs, and example case studies

Die Erde 143:1-2, 75-105 (2012).

Kreyenfeld, M.; Trappe, H.; Huinink, J.; Walke, R.:

DemoDiff: a dataset for the Study of Family Change in Eastern (and Western) Germany

Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften/Schmollers Jahrbuch 132:4, 653-660 (2012).

Mengel-From, J.; Thinggaard, M.; Christiansen, L.; Vaupel, J. W.; Ørstavik, K. H.; Christensen, K.:

Skewed X inactivation and survival: a 13-year follow-up study of elderly twins and singletons

European Journal of Human Genetics 20:3, 361-364 (2012).

Metelskaya, V.; Shkolnikova, M. A.; Shalnova, S. A.; Andreev, E. M.; Deev, A. D.; Jdanov, D. A.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Prevalence, components, and correlates of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among elderly Muscovites

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 55:2, 231-237 (2012).

Ouellette, N.; Bourbeau, R.; Camarda, C. G.:

Regional disparities in Canadian adult and old-age mortality: a comparative study based on smoothed mortality ratio surfaces and age at death distributions

Canadian Studies in Population 39:3-4, 79-106 (2012).

Patxot, C.; Renteria, E.; Sánchez Romero, M.; Souto, G.:

Measuring the balance of government intervention on forward and backward family transfers using NTA estimates: the modified Lee arrows

International Tax and Public Finance 19:3, 442-461 (2012).

Perelli-Harris, B.; Kreyenfeld, M.; Sigle-Rushton, W.; Keizer, R.; Lappegård, T.; Jasilioniene, A.; Berghammer, C.; Di Giulio, P.:

Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s

Population Studies 66:2, 167-182 (2012).

Raz-Yurovich, L.:

Economic determinants of divorce among dual-earner couples: Jews in Israel

European Journal of Population 28:2, 177-203 (2012).

Schaible, R.; Gerloff-Elias, A.; Colchero, F.; Schubert, H.:

Two parthenogenetic populations of Chara canescens differ in their capacity to acclimate to irradiance and salinity

Oecologia 168:2, 343-353 (2012).

Schnettler, S.; Steinbach, A.:

How do biological and social kinship play out within families in the U.S.? An evolutionary perspective on perceived parental care and closeness in adolescents

Zeitschrift für Familienforschung 23:2, 173-195 (2012).

Scholz, R. D.; Schröder, C.:

Demographic trends in Germany and their economic implications

Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften/Schmollers Jahrbuch 132:2, 151-174 (2012).

Schwabl, H.; Holmes, D.; Strasser, R.; Scheuerlein. A.:

Embryonic exposure to maternal testosterone influences age-specific mortality patterns in a captive passerine bird

Age 34:1, 87-94 (2012).

Shkolnikov, V. M.; Andreev, E. M.; Jdanov, D. A.; Jasilionis, D.; Kravdal, Ø.; Vågerö, D.; Valkonen, T.:

Increasing absolute mortality disparities by education in Finland, Norway and Sweden, 1971–2000

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 66:4, 372-378 (2012).

Smailyte, G.; Jasilionis, D.; Ambrozaitiene, D.; Stankuniene, V.:

Educational inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality in Lithuania: a record linkage study

Cancer Epidemiology 36:5, e279-e283 (2012).

Szoltysek, M.:

Spatial construction of European family and household systems: a promising path or a blind alley? An Eastern European perspective

Continuity and Change 27:1, 11-52 (2012).

Szoltysek, M.:

The genealogy of Eastern European difference: an insider´s view

Journal of Comparative Family Studies 43:3, 335-371 (2012).

Szoltysek, M.; Gruber, S.; Zuber Goldstein, B.; Scholz, R. D.:

Living arrangements and household formation in an industrializing urban setting: Rostock 1867-1900

Annales de démographie historique 122:2, 233-269 (2012).

Tomkins, S.; Collier, T.; Oralov, A.; Saburova, L.; McKee, M.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Kiryanov, N.; Leon, D. A.:

Hazardous alcohol consumption is a major factor in male premature mortality in a typical Russian city: prospective cohort study 2003–2009

PLoS One 7:2, e30274-e30274 (2012).

Torri, T.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Forecasting life expectancy in an international context

International Journal of Forecasting 28:2, 519-531 (2012).

van Raalte, A. A.; Kunst, A. E.; Lundberg, O.; Leinsalu, M.; Martikainen, P.; Artnik, B.; Deboosere, P.; Stirbu, I.; Wojtnyniak, B.; Mackenbach, J. P.:

The contribution of educational inequalities to lifespan variation

Population Health Metrics 10:3, 1-10 (2012).

Vaupel, J. W.; Zhang, Z.:

The difference between alternative averages

Demographic Research 27:15, 419-428 (2012).

Willführ, K.; Gagnon, A.:

Are stepmothers evil or simply unskilled? Infant death clustering in recomposed families

Biodemography & Social Biology 58:2, 149-161 (2012).

Wrycza, T. F.; Baudisch, A.:

How life expectancy varies with perturbations in age-specific mortality

Demographic Research 27:13, 365-376 (2012).

Wu, Y.; Zhang, D.; Pang, Z.; Oksuzyan, A.; Jiang, W.; Wang, S.; Li, S.; Kruse, T.; Christensen, K.; Tan, Q.: