The ages of extremal impact on life disparity caused by averting deaths

Peter Wagner
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Peter Wagner: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2010-016, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: This paper is concerned with sensitivity analysis of life disparity with respect to changes in mortality rates. Recently Zhang and Vaupel introduced a ”threshold age”, such that averting deaths before that age reduces disparity, while averting deaths after that age increases disparity. We provide a refinement to this result by characterizing the ages at which averting deaths has an extremal impact on life disparity. A procedure is given for approaching the threshold age numerically. The results are illustrated using data for the female populations of Denmark, the US, Japan and France in 2005. [Keywords: life disparity, sensitivity analysis, mortality changes, threshold age]

JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2010-016

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