Divergence in Age Patterns of Mortality Change Drives International Divergence in Lifespan Inequality.
In the past six decades, lifespan inequality has varied greatly within and among countries even while life expectancy has continued to increase. How and why does mortality change generate this diversity? We derive a precise link between changes in age-specific mortality and lifespan inequality, meas...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 1003 - 1018 |
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