The effects of shocks in early life mortality on later life expectancy and mortality compression: A cohort analysis

Mikko Myrskylä
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Mikko Myrskylä: Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung

Demographic Research, 2010, vol. 22, issue 12, 289-320

Abstract: I study how shocks in cohort-level early life conditions, as represented by deviations from trend in mortality before age 5, affect later mortality. I use data for six European countries and find that shocks that increase infant mortality decrease later life expectancy between ages 5-30. The effect is strong for England and Wales but small or insignificant for other countries. Shocks that increase mortality at ages 1-5 increase life expectancy between ages 5-30 and compress the mortality distribution. For both shocks the effects are weak at older ages. These results suggest that early life conditions have a transitory effect and potentially only little influence on old-age mortality.

Keywords: mortality; cohort effects; early life conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.12

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