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How Long Do We Live? - Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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How Long Do We Live? - Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Series: Demographic Research Monographs
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How should life expectancy be calculated? More generally, how
should life - bles be estimated? Since John Graunt's pioneering
contribution, read before theRoyalSocietyofLondonat6p. m.
onthe27thofFebruary1661, demog- phers have developed better and
better methods. Some concerns were raised, including concerns about
how to deal with heterogeneous populations p- lished in an article
inDemography in 1979 that I wrote with Kenneth Manton and Eric
Stallard. Yet, a few years ago nearly all demographers believed
that as long as the underlying population and death counts were
accurate, then lifetables could be reliably estimated. John
Bongaarts and Gri? Feeney launched a revolutionary assault on this
dogma. Two key contributions by them are reprinted in Part I of
this mo- graph. Some very good demographers agreed, as least in
part, with B- gaarts' and Feeney's radical argument that when death
rates are changing, then tempo e?ects distort conventional
calculations of life expectancy. Other very good demographers
disagreed. So John Bongaarts and I brought some leading
demographers together in a research meeting, co-sponsored by the
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Population
Co- cil and held in New York City on November 18 and 19, 2004. Many
of the papers discussed at the workshop, generally after
considerable revision, were published in Demographic Research in
2005 and 2006. Nine of these articles, in some cases somewhat
revised, are published in this monograph: they are the ?rst seven
chapters in Part II and the two chapters in Part III.
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