Tempo effect on age-specific death rates
It is widely known that shifts of cohort fertility schedule can produce misleading trends in period TFR. This note shows that such a "tempo bias" can occur in age-specific mortality as well: if the age distribution of cohort deaths shifts toward older (younger) ages, the period age-specifi...
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| Language: | English |
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2005-11-01
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| Series: | Demographic Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/8/ |