Editors:
- New methods and adjustments of existing ones for the measurement of human longevity
- First comprehensive book on this topic
- Tables, illustrations, examples for an intuitive and visually oriented demonstration of methods
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Demographic Research Monographs (DEMOGRAPHIC)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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How long do we live? Demographic models and reflections on tempo effects: An introduction
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Theoretical basis for the mortality tempo effect
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Critiques, extensions and applications of the mortality tempo effect
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Comparison of period and cohort measures of longevity
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About this book
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"?
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics, Statistics, Mathematics and Sociology “W. Pareto”, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Elisabetta Barbi
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
James W. Vaupel
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Population Council, New York, USA
John Bongaarts
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How Long Do We Live?
Book Subtitle: Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects
Editors: Elisabetta Barbi, James W. Vaupel, John Bongaarts
Series Title: Demographic Research Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78520-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-78519-4Published: 07 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09727-0Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-78520-0Published: 21 March 2008
Series ISSN: 1613-5520
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9286
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 284
Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Population Economics, Aging, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law