Linking period and cohort life-expectancy linear increases in Gompertz proportional hazards models

Trifon Missov and Adam Lenart
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Trifon Missov: Syddansk Universitet
Adam Lenart: Syddansk Universitet

Demographic Research, 2011, vol. 24, issue 19, 455-468

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.

Keywords: period life expectancy; cohort life expectancy; Gompertz mortality; Linear Shift Models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.19

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