How Long Do We Live? Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects

How Long Do We Live? Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects / edited by Elisabetta Barbi, John Bongaarts, James W. Vaupel.

The most widely used measure of longevity is the period life expectancy at birth which is calculated from age specific death rates by life table methods. In 2002, John Bongaarts and Griffith Feeney introduced the revolutionary idea that this conventional estimate of period life expectancy is distort...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Barbi, Elisabetta (Editor), Bongaarts, John (Editor), Vaupel, James W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Demographic Research Monographs, A Series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
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Subjects:
Demography.
Population.
Aging.
Statistics .
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