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Sixty-five has long been thought of as the point of entry into "old age". We propose a number of life table criteria for answering the following questions: If 65 was considered appropriate four decades ago, what is the corresponding age today? If 65 was (implicitly) a male-oriented definition...
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ulation for a given society, combining the simple indica tors of mortality and aging. Life expectancy at birth is in …-dependent of the demographic structure of the population and is, therefore, adequate for measuring overall mortality. However, it … society; and given that it is a weighted average, its changes can be easily decomposed into reductions in mortality (gains in …
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by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts surrounding the aging of populations across different countries at … might consider to mitigate the strain - and to harness the full potential - of aging populations worldwide. …
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by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts surrounding the aging of populations across different countries at … might consider to mitigate the strain – and to harness the full potential – of aging populations worldwide …
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We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model … provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model … mortality gradients across socio-economic statuses, (ii) non-monotonic dynamic effects of in-utero shocks, (iii) persistent or …
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to the evolution of completeness of death counts registration and the changes in the mortality age profile. We make use … of the mortality database available at the Brazilian Ministry of Health Database - Datasus and Population Censuses from … 1980 to 2010. We applied traditional demographic methods to evaluate the quality of mortality data for 137 small areas and …
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status, formal and informal relation to the labor market and coverage of public pension programs. I also use the data to show …
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Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football events. We find that an increase in national teams'...
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participation in the labor market and potentially affect preferences. Still, health remains remarkably understudied as a fertility … determinant. We explore the association between health and fertility, using uptake of doctor-certified sickness absences and long …/or changes in the health-fertility association have contributed to the distinct fall in the total fertility rate in Norway since …
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Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football events. We find that an increase in national teams'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533859