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Estimating mean lifetime

Year: 2003

Type: article

Abstract: The life expectancy implied by current age-specific mortality rates is calculated with life table methods that are among the oldest and most fundamental tools of demography. We demonstrate that these conventional estimates of period life expectancy are affected by an undesirable "tempo effect." The tempo effect is positive when the mean age at death is rising and negative when the mean is declining. Estimates of the effect for females in three countries with high and rising life expectancy range from 1.6 yr in the U.S. and Sweden to 2.4 yr in France for the period 1980-1995.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2035060100

Authors: John Bongaarts, Griffith Feeney

Institution: Population Council

Language: English

Topic: Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2128676199

FWCI: 20.64

Cites: 18

Cited by: 98

Related to: 10