The cost of living longer: projections of the effects of prospective mortality improvement on economic support ratios for fourteen more advanced economies • Nick Parr, Macquarie University ; Jackie Li, Nanyang Technological University ; Leonie Tickle, Macquarie University

How should population ageing be measured? • Jeroen J. A. Spijker, University of Edinburgh ; Timothy L. M. Riffe, University of California, Berkeley ; John MacInnes, University of Edinburgh

The transition to ageing • Giambattista Salinari, Università degli Studi di Sassari ; Gustavo De Santis, Università di Firenze

Using quantile regression to identify longevity thresholds • Nicola Tedesco, Università degli Studi di Cagliari ; Luisa Salaris, Università degli Studi di Cagliari

Longevity of Southern European retiree by income and socio-demographic characteristics • Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) ; Francisco Viciana, Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia ; Víctor Montañés Cobo, Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia ; Rosa Canovas, Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia ; Margarita Montesó, Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia