Session 80:
Longevity and measures of mortality
Chair: Frans Willekens, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Divergence in mortality change drives divergence in the variance of age at death Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University ; Duncan Gillespie, Stanford University ; Meredith Trotter, Stanford University
An index of inequality in age-at-death distributions across a group of countries based on the concept of the Equivalent Length of Life Magdalena Muszynska, Warsaw School of Economics ; Adam Szulc, Warsaw School of Economics ; Fanny Janssen, University of Groningen
Analyzing the trends of the modal age at death for European Countries and Japan using the LD model Futoshi Ishii, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan
Smoothing of probabilities of death for older people in life expectancy table Gustaf Strandell, Statistics Sweden ; Tomas Johansson, Statistics Sweden
Inferring mortality deceleration patterns from a gamma-Gompertz-Makeham framework Filipe Ribeiro, Universidade de Évora ; Trifon I. Missov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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