How long do we live? Demographic models and reflections on tempo effects: An introduction

Demographic Research Monographs

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-8

  Barbi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Demographic Model; Demographic Research; Life Expectancy; Mortality Change; Total Fertility Rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884358378     PISSN: 16135520     EISSN: 21979286     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78520-0_1     Document Type: Chapter

References (14)

1. Bongaarts, J. and Feeney, G. Estimating mean lifetime. In this volume, also published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(23):13127–13133. 2003.
2. Bongaarts, J. and Feeney, G. The quantum and tempo of life cycle events. In this volume, also published in Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, pages 115–151. 2006.
3. Bongaarts, J. and Feeney, G. (1998). On the quantum and tempo of fertility. Population and Development Review, 24(2):271–291.
4. Bongaarts, J. and Feeney, G. (2002). How long do we live? Population and Development Review, 28(1):13–29.
5. Feeney, G. (2003). Mortality tempo: a guide for the skeptic. to be downloaded from http://www.gfeeney.com. unpublished manuscript.
6. Kohler, H. P. and Ortega, J. A. (2002a). Tempo-adjusted period parity progression measures, fertility postponement and completed cohort fertility. Demographic Research, 6:92–144. www.demographic-research.org.
7. Kohler, H. P. and Ortega, J. A. (2002b). Tempo-adjusted period parity progression measures: Assessing the implications of delayed childbearing for cohort fertility in Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain. Demographic Research, 6:146–190. www.demographic-research.org.
8. Ryder, N. B. (1956). Problems of trend determination during a transition in fertility. Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, 34:5–21.
9. Ryder, N. B. (1959). An appraisal of fertility trends in the United States. In Thirty Years of Research in Human Fertility: Retrospect and Prospect. 38-49. Milbank Memorial Fund, New York.
10. Ryder, N. B. (1964). The process of demographic translation. Demography, 1:74–82.
11. Ryder, N. B. (1980). Components of temporal variations in American fertility. In Hiorns, R. W., editor, Demographic Patterns in Developed Societies, pages 15–54. Taylor & Francis, London.
12. Sobotka, T. (2003). Tempo-quantum and period-cohort interplay in fertility changes in Europe. Evidence from the Chech Republic, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden. Demographic Research, 8:152–214.
13. Sobotka, T. (2004). Is Lowest-Low Fertility in Europe Explained by the Postponement of Childbearing? Population and Development Review, 30(2):195–220.
14. Winkler-Dworak, M. and Engelhardt, H. (2004). On the tempo and quantum of first marriages in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Demographic Research, 10(9):231–263.