Journal of Aging Science

Italian National Institute of Statistics, Directorate for Social Statistics and Population Census, Rome, Italy

Biography

Giorgia Capacci is a Director of Social Statistics and Population Census in Italian National Institute of Statistics which is located in the city of Rome of country Italy.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Cohort analysis of gender gap after one hundred years old: the role of differential migration and survival trajectories
  Author(s): Graziella Caselli*, Marco Battaglini and Giorgia Capacci
  
  The persistence of mortality decline at all ages, and particularly at older ages, means that an increasing number of individuals are becoming centenarians and semi-super centenarians. Our hypothesis is that the gender differences in mortality level in old ages had an impact on the number of men and women reaching 100 years and so on the gender gap. Work-related international migration was also an important characteristic of Italian cohorts born in the last decades of the Nineteenth century, and in the first decades of the Twentieth, as these migrations affected more men than women. Referring to the Istat (Italian National Institute of Statistics) mortality data (Cause of Death Survey and Deaths of Resident Population survey) and the Semi super and Super centenarians Surve -SSC, that has been realized by Istat since 2009, the aim of this paper is to present the development of.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2329-8847.19.07.199

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