Barbi, Elisabetta
How Long Do We Live?
1. How long do we live? Demographic models and reflections on tempo effects: An introduction
Elisabetta Barbi
I.. Theoretical basis for the mortality tempo effect
2. Estimating mean lifetime
John Bongaarts, Griffith Feeney
3. The quantum and tempo of life-cycle events
John Bongaarts, Griffith Feeney
II. Critiques, extensions and applications of the mortality tempo effect
4. Demographic translation and tempo effects: An accelerated failure time perspective
Germán Rodríguez
5. Lifesaving, lifetimes and lifetables
James W. Vaupel
6. Tempo and its tribulations
Kenneth W. Wachter
7. Tempo effects in mortality: An appraisal
Michel Guillot
8. Increments to life and mortality tempo
Griffith Feeney
9. Mortality tempo versus removal of causes of mortality: Opposite views leading to different estimations of life expectancy
Hervé Bras
10. Tempo effect on age-specific death rates
Shiro Horiuchi
11. Mortality tempo-adjustment: Theoretical considerations and an empirical application
Marc Luy
III.. Comparison of period and cohort measures of longevity
12. Five period measures of longevity
John Bongaarts
13. Found in translation? A cohort perspective on tempo-adjusted life expectancy
Joshua R. Goldstein
IV.. Conclusions
14. Afterthoughts on the mortality tempo effect
John Bongaarts, Griffith Feeney
15. Turbulence in lifetables: Demonstration by four simple examples
James W. Vaupel
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Nyckelord: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General SOC000000
- Författare
- Barbi, Elisabetta
- Bongaarts, John
- Vaupel, James W.
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2008
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Kategori
- Samhälle
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783540785200