How should life expectancy be calculated? More generally, how should life - bles be estimated? Since John Graunt's pioneering contribution, read before theRoyalSocietyofLondonat6p. m. onthe27thofFebruary1661,demog- phers have developed better and better methods. Some concerns were raised, including concerns about how to deal with heterogeneous populations p- lished in an article inDemography in 1979 that I wrote with Kenneth Manton and Eric Stallard. Yet, a few years ago nearly all demographers believed that as long as the underlying population and death counts were accurate, then lifetables could be reliably estimated. John Bongaarts and Gri? Feeney launched a revolutionary assault on this dogma. Two key contributions by them are reprinted in Part I of this mo- graph. Some very good demographers agreed, as least in part, with B- gaarts' and Feeney's radical argument that when death rates are changing, then tempo e?ects distort conventional calculations of life expectancy. Other very good demographers disagreed. So John Bongaarts and I brought some leading demographers together in a research meeting, co-sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Population Co- cil and held in New York City on November 18 and 19, 2004. Many of the papers discussed at the workshop, generally after considerable revision, were published in Demographic Research in 2005 and 2006. Nine of these articles, in some cases somewhat revised, are published in this monograph: they are the ?rst seven chapters in Part II and the two chapters in Part III.
Produktkennzeichnungen
Herausgeber
John Bongaarts, Elisabetta Barbi, James w. Vaupel
ISBN-10
3540785191
ISBN-13
9783540785194
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70096114
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
300 Seiten
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin
Publikationsname
How Long Do We Live?
Autor
John Bongaarts, Elisabetta Barbi, James W. Vaupel
Format
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Inhaltsbeschreibung
Hc Runder Rücken Kaschiert
Item Length
24cm
Item Height
2cm
Item Width
16cm
Buchreihe
Demographic Research Monographs
Item Weight
617g
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