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Sex ratios at sexual maturity and longevity: Evidence from Swedish register data
longevity mortality sex ratios
2014/11/25
Background: This study tests the recently proposed hypothesis that the contextual sex ratio at sexual maturity is related to longevity. Previous empirical research in the United States has shown that ...
Sex ratios at sexual maturity and longevity: Evidence from Swedish register data
longevity mortality sex ratios
2014/11/25
Background: This study tests the recently proposed hypothesis that the contextual sex ratio at sexual maturity is related to longevity. Previous empirical research in the United States has shown that ...
Impact of different mortality forecasting methods and explicit assumptions on projected future life expectancy: The case of the Netherlands
Europe extrapolation Lee-Carter model Netherlands non-linear models smoking
2014/11/25
Background: With the rapid aging of the population, mortality forecasting becomes increasingly important, especially for the insurance and pension industries. However, a wide variety of projection met...
Mortality by marital status in a rapidly changing society: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Czech Republic differential mortality marital status mortality
2014/11/25
Background: Married people tend to live longer than their unmarried counterparts, and the advantage in life expectancy enjoyed by married people relative to other groups has been increasing over time....
The more you learn the less you know? Interpretive ambiguity across three modes of qualitative data
Africa AIDS/HIV ethnography focus groups HIV testing interviews Malawi qualitative methods research mindfulness
2014/11/24
Background: Researchers across disciplines face a similar challenge ensuring our methods can give us valid, usable answers to our questions. But what happens when multiple strategies of inquiry give u...
Working life gain from gain in old age life expectancy in India
elderly life expectancy old age dependency projections working life expectancy
2014/11/24
Background: It is important to evaluate the interaction between increasing life expectancy and changing age patterns in work participation from the perspective of planning for the greying population o...
Indigenous life expectancy in Sweden 1850-1899: Towards a long and healthy life?
colonization infant mortality life expectancy Sami
2014/11/24
Background: Previous research has shown that the health transition and demographical pattern of indigenous people has followed a different path compared to non-indigenous groups living in the same are...
Application of the modified PGW method for determining the smoking attributable fraction of deaths in New Zealand Maori, Pacific and non-Maori non-Pacific populations
cannabis smoking lung cancer Peto-Lopez method PGW method smoking-related mortality tobacco use
2014/11/24
Background: Preston, Glei and Wilmoth recently proposed a new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high income countries and an improvement to the method was proposed by Rostron. Th...
Background: Evidence of a negative relationship between educational attainment and divorce in Japan is not consistent with predictions derived from standard theoretical emphases on the costs of divorc...
Estimates of Age-Specific Reductions in HIV Prevalence in Uganda: Bayesian Melding Estimation and Probabilistic Population Forecast with an HIV-enabled Cohort Component Projection Model
Africa AIDS/HIV Bayesian melding Cohort Component Model of Population Projection estimation forecast IMIS incidence prevalence Tanzania Uganda
2014/11/21
Background: Much of our knowledge of the epidemiology and demography of HIV epidemics in Africa is derived from models fit to sparse, non-representative data. These often average over age and other im...
Whose education affects a child’s nutritional status? From parents' to household's education
Africa anthropometric indicators child nutrition education externalities regression seemingly unrelated regression
2014/11/21
Background: The paper engages in the ongoing debate regarding the determinants of child nutrition in developing countries and stresses the potential contribution of the education of household members ...
Point and interval forecasts of age-specific life expectancies: A model averaging approach
Booth-Maindonald-Smith method functional data analysis Hyndman-Ullah method Lee-Carter method Lee-Miller method principal components analysis random walk with drift
2014/11/21
Background: Any improvement in the forecast accuracy of life expectancy would be beneficial for policy decision regarding the allocation of current and future resources. In this paper, I revisit some ...
Smoothing and projecting age-specific probabilities of death by TOPALS
age-specific probabilities of death Brass model Lee-Carter method life expectancy at birth model age schedules partial adjustment model population projections relational model smoothing
2014/11/21
Background: TOPALS is a new relational model for smoothing and projecting age schedules. The model is operationally simple, flexible, and transparent. Objective: This article demonstrates how TOPALS c...
The difference between alternative averages
covariance population average weighting function
2014/11/21
Background: Demographers have long been interested in how compositional change, e.g., change in age structure, affects population averages.Objective: We want to deepen understanding of how composition...
How life expectancy varies with perturbations in age-specific mortality
life expectancy mortality pace of aging perturbation
2014/11/21
Background: A naturally arising question in demography is how a given change in mortality affects life expectancy. Scholars have targeted this question with different aims and from different perspecti...