Why we should monitor disparities in old-age mortality with the modal age at death

• Viorela Diaconu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: v.diaconu@umontreal.ca

  Affiliation Lifespan Inequalities Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3098-4704

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• Alyson van Raalte,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lifespan Inequalities Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

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• Pekka Martikainen

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Lifespan Inequalities Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, Population Research Unit (PRU), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9374-1438

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