China has experienced large improvements in mortality rates, but there remain substantial variations at the provincial … level. This paper develops new models to project mortality at both the national and provincial levels in China. We propose … comprehensive database containing mortality data for 31 provinces over the period 1982–2010. The baseline two-level model with a …

Multi-population mortality forecasting has become an increasingly important area in actuarial science and demography …, as a means to avoid long-run divergence in mortality projection. This paper aims to establish a unified state …-space Bayesian framework to model, estimate and forecast mortality rates in a multi-population context. In this regard, we …

Cohort effects are important factors in determining the evolution of human mortality for certain countries. Extensions … of dynamic mortality models with cohort features have been proposed in the literature to account for these factors under … the generalised linear modelling framework. In this paper we approach the problem of mortality modelling with cohort …

Cohort effects are important factors in determining the evolution of human mortality for certain countries. Extensions … of dynamic mortality models with cohort features have been proposed in the literature to account for these factors under … the generalised linear modelling framework. In this paper we approach the problem of mortality modelling with cohort …

We apply a Markov-switching Bayesian vector autoregression (MSBVAR) model to mortality forecasting. MSBVAR has not … previously been applied in this context, and our results show that it is a promising tool for mortality forecasting. Our model … helps to capture transitory changes in mortality and provides insightful quantitative information about mortality dynamics …

The Lee-Carter model has become a benchmark in stochastic mortality modeling. However, its forecasting performance can … architecture for mortality rate forecasting, empirically compare this model as well as other neural network models to the Lee …-Carter model and find that lower forecast errors are achievable for many countries in the Human Mortality Database. We provide …

The prototypical Lee-Carter mortality model is characterized by a single common time factor that loads differently … across age groups. In this paper, we propose a parametric factor model for the term structure of mortality where multiple … factors: a factor common for all age groups, factors for infant and adult mortality, and a factor for the “accident hump” that …

mortality intensity is driven by an affine jump-diffusion (AJD) process. Advantages of an AJD specification of mortality … dynamics include the availability of closed-form expressions for survival probabilities afforded by an affine mortality … specification and the ease with which we can incorporate sudden positive and negative shocks in mortality dynamics, reflecting …