Relationships between period and cohort life expectancy: Gaps and lags

Population Studies

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 257-269

  Goldstein, Joshua R ^a   Wachter, Kenneth W ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cohort; Demographic translation; Expectation of life; Linear Shift Models; Mathematical demography; Mortality; Period

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 33749860419     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00324720600895876     Document Type: Article

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