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 …

weighted moving averages of earlier values of period life expectancy. They are indices of mortality conditions in the recent … past. The period life expectancy is an index of current mortality conditions. The difference is a difference between past …

which mortality follows a Gompertz model with a constant rate of improvement. Similar results are observed among females in … conventional period life expectancy when mortality changes over time. These findings are consistent with theoretical analysis by … with the rate of change in mortality. …

clearly underrepresented in differential mortality studies. Second, we are able to use a novel measure of lifetime earnings as …