A New Method for Determining Why Length of Life is More Unequal in Some Populations Than in Others

Demography

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1207-1230

  Nau, Claudia ^a   Firebaugh, Glenn ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Compositional effects; Life span inequality; Mortality; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869110471     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0133-9     Document Type: Article

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