Losses of expected lifetime in the United States and other developed countries: Methods and empirical analyses

Demography

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 211-239

  Shkolnikov, Vladimir M ^a   Andreev, Evgeny M ^a   Zhang, Zhen ^a   Oeppen, James ^a   Vaupel, James W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causes of death; Inequality; Life expectancy; Premature death

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953681311     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0015-6     Document Type: Article

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