Tempo and its Tribulations

Bongaarts and Feeney offer alternatives to period life expectancy with a set of demographic measures equivalent to each other under a Proportionality Assumption. Under this assumption, we show that the measures are given by exponentially weighted moving averages of earlier values of period life ex...

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Main Author: Kenneth W. Wachter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2005-11-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/9/