Period life expectancy varies with changes in mortality, and should not be confused with the life expectancy of those … alive during that period. Given past and likely future mortality changes, a recent debate has arisen on the usefulness of … the period life expectancy as the leading measure of survivorship. An alternative aggregate measure of period mortality …

mortality generally still is rejected. This rejection is irrational in principle, as the basic idea behind the tempo approach is … that mortality tempo-adjustment can paint a different picture of current mortality conditions compared to conventional life … expectancy. An application of the Bongaarts and Feeney method to the analysis of mortality differences between western and …

tempo under changing fertility and mortality that share a synthetic cohort interpretation with the adjusted measure of … quantum. I stress similarities between the results for fertility and mortality, particularly in terms of mean age of … distinguish quantum and tempo effects, but argue that in the case of mortality the Bongaarts-Feeney measure of tempo-adjusted life …

responsible for more years of life lost in 2000 than in 1970 despite the fact that declines in cancer mortality contributed to …

conditions this assumption is appropriate, or how to compare their responses to the underlying mortality schedule. We compare … underlying sensitivities to mortality change under different mortality regimes in order to test under which conditions the …

identify and compare age-specific contributions to change in life expectancy. Using mortality models and historical data for … Sweden, we examine the effect of mortality changes over time. Our results indicate that the widening of the gap between the … two life expectancies is primarily a consequence of the dramatic mortality decline at older ages that occurred during the …

Adult mortality decline was the driving force of life-expectancy increase in many developed countries in the second … half of the twentieth century. In this paper we study one of the most widely used models to capture adult human mortality … expectancy. Secondly, we prove that if mortality decreases in time at all ages by the same proportion, both period and cohort …

In a Gompertz mortality model with constant yearly improvements at all ages, linear increases in period life expectancy …