Ages of origin and destination for a difference in life expectancy [PDF]
Decomposition of a difference in life expectancies may identify ages at which the difference originates in mortality differences, or may identify age at which the difference results in different values of person-years lived (life table population).
Elwood Carlson
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Gamma-Gompertz life expectancy at birth
Demographic Research, 2013 BACKGROUND The gamma-Gompertz multiplicative frailty model is the most common parametric modelapplied to human mortality data at adult and old ages. The resulting life expectancy hasbeen calculated so far only numerically.
Trifon I. Missov
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An analysis of life expectancy and economic production using expectile frontier zones [PDF]
The wealth of a country is assumed to have a strong non-linear influence on the life expectancy of its inhabitants. We follow up on research by Preston and study the relationship with gross domestic product.
Sabine K. Schnabel, Paul Eilers
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Health Expenditures And Life Expectancy Around The World: A Quantile Regression Approach [PDF]
Previous literature has produced mixed results on the effects of country health expenditures on longevity. More importantly, all previous studies have evaluated the expenditure effects on the mean of the life expectancy distribution, ignoring the ...
George L. Wehby, Maksym Obrizan
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A comparison of different methods for decomposition of changes in expectation of life at birth and differentials in life expectancy at birth [PDF]
Several methods were proposed to decompose the difference between two life expectancies at birth into the contribution by different age groups. In this study an attempt has been made to compare different methods with that of Chandra Sekar (1949) method ...
K. Murthy Ponnapalli
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Rising Mortality and Life Expectancy Differentials by Lifetime Earnings in the United States [PDF]
Are mortality and life expectancy differences by socioeconomic groups increasing in the United States? Using a unique data set matching high-quality administrative records with survey data, this study explores trends in these differentials by lifetime ...
Julian Cristia
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A model for geographical variation in health and total life expectancy [PDF]
This paper develops a joint approach to life and health expectancy based on 2001 UK Census data for limiting long term illness and general health status, and on registered death occurrences in 2001.
Peter Congdon
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Good for Living? On the Relation between Globalization and Life Expectancy [PDF]
This paper analyzes the relation between three dimensions of globalization (economic, social and political) and life expectancy using a panel of 92 countries over the period 1970-2005.
Nilsson, Therese, Bergh, Andreas
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BMC GeriatricsBackground Although about 10% of the Latin American population is indigenous, ethnic differences in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and life expectancy with disability (DLE) are unknown.
Moisés H. Sandoval +2 more
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The life expectancy gains from pharmaceutical drugs: a critical appraisal of the literature [PDF]
Several studies suggest that, on the basis of life expectancy (LE) regressions, new pharmaceutical drugs are responsible for some of the marked gains in LE observed over the last 50 years. We critically appraise these studies.
Paul Grootendorst +2 more
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