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Beyond the Kannisto-Thatcher Database on Old Age Mortality: an assessment of data quality at advanced ages
Jdanov, Dmitri A.; Jasilionis, Domantas; Soroko, Eugeny L. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008
quality data on oldest-old mortality remain relatively scarce. The Kannisto-Thatcher Old Age Mortality Database (KTD) is a … unique source providing uniformly recalculated old-age mortality data for 35 countries. Our study addresses a number of data … Kannisto, we apply the same set of measures. This allows us to identify dubious or irregular mortality patterns. Deviations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168350
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The age separating early deaths from late deaths
Zhang, Zhen; Vaupel, James W. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009
There is one unique age separating early deaths from late deaths such that averting an early death decreases life disparity, but averting a late death increases inequality in lifespans.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005227930
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High development and fertility: fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link
Myrskylä, Mikko; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Billari, Francesco C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011
A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322377
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Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life cycle life satisfaction
Margolis, Rachel; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle. Globally, these factors explain a substantial fraction of happiness, increasing from 12 percent in young adulthood to 15 percent in mature adulthood. Health is the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646130
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New cohort fertility forecasts for the developed world
Myrskylä, Mikko; Goldstein, Joshua R.; Cheng, Yen-hsin … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
The 1970s worries of the "population bomb" were replaced in the 1990s with concerns of population aging driven by falling birth rates. Across the developed world, the nearly universally-used fertility indicator, the period total fertility rate, fell well below two children per woman. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646138
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The Generations and Gender Contextual Database: concepts and content
Spielauer, Martin - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004
This paper aims at contributing to a proposal for the concept and content of the Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program. We develop guidelines for data collection by identifying the main focus, the key dimensions as well as the main data types of the GGP Contextual Database....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163243
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The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program
Spielauer, Martin - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006
The increasing recognition that the study of human behaviors has to take into account the multiple contexts in which they occur has opened a promising research avenue in social sciences. It also presents new challenges, e.g., to complement micro-level surveys with the collection of meaningful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163253
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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022
inheritances have very little effect on the distribution of Total Inflows, suggesting that inheritance taxes may do little to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083901
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The (un)importance of inheritance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022
inheritances have very little effect on the distribution of Total Inflows, suggesting that inheritance taxes may do little to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805994
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Select birth cohorts
MacMinn, Richard D.; Weber, Frederik - 2009
detailed analysis of mortality data an additional type of risk can be identified: differences in mortality improvements by … further investigate mortality improvements but rather relied on graphical representations without particular focus on … established. A simple criterion for identifying select cohorts is proposed and used here to what country mortality data reveals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861095