Friday, June 27 / 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM   •   Lecture Room 336

Session 80:
Longevity and measures of mortality

Chair: Frans Willekens, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Smoothing of probabilities of death for older people in life expectancy table • Gustaf Strandell, Statistics Sweden ; Tomas Johansson, Statistics Sweden

  5. 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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