1. When Do Parents Bury a Child? Uncertainty of Offspring Loss across the Demographic Transition • Diego Alburez-Gutierrez , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Ugofilippo Basellini , Max Planck Institute for demographic Research; Emilio Zagheni , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

2. Trends in Mid-life Mortality in England and Wales: Is the US an Anomaly? • Jennifer B. Dowd , Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford; Andrea M Tilstra , University of Oxford.

3. Slowdown in Mortality Improvement in the Past Decade: A Us/UK Comparison • Emily Grundy , University of Essex; Michael Murphy , London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

4. Mortality Trends and Causes of Death in Moldova, Ukraine and Romania • Olga Penina , Nicolae Testemitanu State University Of Medicine And Pharmacy Of The Republic Of Moldova.

5. The Long-Term Effect of the Great Recession on European Mortality • Giambattista Salinari , Università degli Studi di Sassari; Federico Benassi, Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT).