1. Quantifying the contribution of smoking to regional mortality disparities in Germany • Pavel Grigoriev, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany; Alyson A. Van Raalte, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

2. Inequalities in retirement lifespan in the contemporary United States • Jiaxin Shi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research & University of Oxford; Christian Dudel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Christiaan W. S. Monden, University of Oxford; Alyson A. Van Raalte, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

3. Cross-sectional Average Length of Life Entropy: Cross-Population Comparisons and Decomposition • Wen Su, Australian National University; Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Australian National University.

4. The impact of smoking on trends in socio-economic longevity inequalities in Europe • Wanda Van Hemelrijck, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI); Anton E. Kunst, University of Amsterdam; Nicolás Zengarini, Epidemiology Unit, ASL TO3, Piedmont Region, Grugliasco(Turin); Pekka Martikainen, University of Helsinki; Fanny Janssen, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and University of Groningen.