How life expectancy varies with perturbations in age-specific mortality

BACKGROUND A naturally arising question in demography is how a given change in mortality affects life expectancy. Scholars have targeted this question with different aims and from differentperspectives. OBJECTIVE We present and prove the central relationship between change in mortality and resulting...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tomasz Wrycza, Annette Baudisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2012-09-01
Series:Demographic Research
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol27/13/