International mortality modelling—An economic perspective

Declan French

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 122, issue 2, 182-186

Abstract: A recent literature has developed on modelling mortality in multiple populations together. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a reason why mortality in different populations may be related based on an economic literature on technology and knowledge diffusion.

Keywords: Mortality; Technology; Diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.10.039

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