Inequalities in Sickness Absence between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland: A Register-Based Study • Kaarina Reini, Åbo Akademi University ; Jan Saarela, Åbo Akademi University

Living Too Long or Dying Too Soon? • Catherine Bowen, Independent ; Solveig Christiansen, NIPH ; Anastasia Emelyanova, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ; Elena Golubeva, Northern (Arctic) Federal University ; Vegard Skirbekk, Columbia University ; Marcin Stonawski, Crakow University of Economics

How Many Twins Are Born on Earth? • Christiaan Monden, Nuffield College and University of Oxford ; Gilles Pison, French Museum of Natural History ; Jeroen Smits, Nijmegen Center for Economics, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen

Sex differences in mean age at hospital admission by age and cause of hospitalization in Denmark 1995-2014. • Kaare Christensen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense ; Andreas Höhn, MPIDR, Rostock and SDU, Odense ; Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen, MaxO, University of Southern Denmark ; Anna Oksuzyan, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Roland Rau, University of Rostock & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Does a Severe Disease Such As Myocardial Infarction, Stroke or Diabetes Alter the Rate of Ageing? • Anders Ahlbom, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet ; Marcus Ebeling, University of Rostock & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Karin Modig, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet ; Roland Rau, University of Rostock & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research