1. Achieving MELIority: Why Demographers, Not Economists, Are Destined to Replace GDP with Median Expected Lifetime Income (MELI). • andreasj@bluffton.edu andreas , Bluffton University.

2. The Great Recession and Lifespan Inequality: Causal Insights from the European Laboratory • Gianni Carboni, University of Sassari; Giambattista Salinari , Università degli Studi di Sassari; Virginia Zarulli, University of Padova, Department of Statistics; Federico Benassi, Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT).

3. Incorporating Duration Dependency in Healthy Life Expectancy: How Serious Is the Bias? • Tianyu Shen , Australian National University; James O'Donnell, Australian National University.

4. Adjusting for Misclassification in the Analysis of Self-Rated Health: Evidence from Italy • Eleonora Trappolini, Sapienza University of Rome; Maria Felice Arezzo , Università di Roma "La Sapienza"; Giuseppina Guagnano, Sapienza University of Rome.