TY  - JOUR
A1  - Vaupel, James W.
T1  - Lifesaving, lifetimes and lifetables
Y1  - 2005/12/15
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 597
EP  - 614
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.24
VL  - 13
IS  - 24
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/24/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/24/13-24.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/24/13-24.pdf
N2  - Mortality change roils period rates. In the short term, conventional calculations of age-specific probabilities of death and life expectancy in the period immediately after the change depend on how many lives have been saved. In the long term, the probabilities and period life expectancy also depend on how long these lives have been saved. When mortality is changing, calculations of period life expectancy do not, except in special circumstances, measure the life expectancy of a cohort of newborns that hypothetically live all their lives under the new mortality regime.

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