Trifon I. Missov
Adam Lenart

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/19/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.19

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Abstract

In a Gompertz mortality model with constant yearly improvements at all ages, linear increases in period life expectancy correspond to linear increases in the respective cohort life expectancy. The link between the two measures can be given by a simple approximate relationship.

Author's affiliation
Trifon I. Missov
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
Adam Lenart
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany

Keywords
cohort life expectancy, Gompertz mortality, Linear Shift Models, period life expectancy

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All publications in the ongoing Special Collection 8 "Formal Relationships" can be found at http://www.demographic-research.org/special/8/

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1278

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