Programme of activities

Workshop on The Life Expectancy Revolution,
Rostock, Germany, 12-14 May 2010.

The workshop will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. It will be a closed meeting of invited experts. The workshop will consider four main questions: Why did life expectancy start to persistently rise in Scandinavia? Why did it start there early in the 19th century? Why did it spread to other countries later? Why has life expectancy in the best-practice country continued to rise linearly since 1840? Sessions will be based on different perspectives, including sessions on "What can we learn from causes of death?"; "What can we learn from studies of the impact of early-life events on later-life mortality?"; "What can we learn from the theory of heterogeneity?"; "What can we learn from the link between life expectancy and lifespan disparities?"; and "What can we learn from studies of Scandinavia's neighbours (including Schleswig-Holstein and the Swedish enclaves in Baltic Germany) and other countries?”.

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