How Long Do We Live?: Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects (Demographic Research Monographs) - Softcover

 
9783642097270: How Long Do We Live?: Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects (Demographic Research Monographs)
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ISBN 10: 3642097278 ISBN 13: 9783642097270
Verlag: Springer, 2010

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This book reviews the debate on how best to measure period longevity. Leading experts in demography critically examine the existence of the tempo effect in mortality, present extensions and applications, and compare period and cohort longevity measures.

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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 distorted by a tempo effect whenever longevity is changing. The tempo effect is defined as an inflation or deflation of the period incidence of a demographic event resulting from a rise or fall in the mean age at which the event occurs. Some demographers agree with this radical argument; others disagree. The book reviews the debate on how best to measure period longevity. In the various chapters, leading experts in demography critically examine the existence of the tempo effect in mortality, present extensions and applications, and compare period and cohort longevity measures. The book provides a deeper understanding of and new insights into the fundamental question "How long do we live"?

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3642097278
ISBN 13 
9783642097270
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
300
Herausgeber
Barbi Elisabetta, Bongaarts John, Vaupel James W.
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