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in How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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Published: 03 August 2018
Fig. 2 Minimum mortality in France, females and males: Birth cohorts 1900–1993. The graph depicts the observed (squares and crosses) as well as the smoothed (solid line) minimum mortality. The observed rates marked with a square indicate the cohorts who spent at least one year in the omitted
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in How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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Published: 03 August 2018
Fig. 3 Minimum mortality, females and males: Birth cohorts 1970, 1980, and 1990. The graph depicts the levels of minimum mortality for the 1970, 1980, and 1990 birth cohorts for all countries analyzed. For Bulgaria, the last available cohort was born in 1989. Countries are ordered according
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in How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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Published: 03 August 2018
Fig. 4 Distribution of minimum mortality ages for all countries together, females and males: Grouped birth cohort 1900–1994. The bars show the relative frequency of the ages in the respective cohort groups pooled over all of the available countries. The age of minimum mortality is measured
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in How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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Published: 03 August 2018
Fig. 5 Absolute male–female minimum mortality differences in Japan, Russia, France, and Norway: Birth cohorts 1900–1994. The gray lines depict all other countries included in the analysis. The sex differences are calculated based on the smoothed minimum mortality estimates. Source: Own
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How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1887–1903.
Published: 03 August 2018
...Fig. 2 Minimum mortality in France, females and males: Birth cohorts 1900–1993. The graph depicts the observed (squares and crosses) as well as the smoothed (solid line) minimum mortality. The observed rates marked with a square indicate the cohorts who spent at least one year in the omitted...
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View articletitled, How Has the Lower Boundary of Human <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1245–1252.
Published: 12 May 2016
... the intrinsic estimator (IE). We first argue that before applying the IE, a grounded theoretical justification is needed for its fundamental constraint on minimum variance of the estimates. We next demonstrate IE’s high sensitivity to the type of dummy parameterization used to obtain the estimates. Finally, we...
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View articletitled, The Intrinsic Estimator, Alternative Estimates, and Predictions of <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Trends: A Comment on Masters, Hummer, Powers, Beck, Lin, and Finch
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Mortality attributable to obesity among middle-aged adults in the United States
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 851–872.
Published: 01 November 2009
... with respect to both normal BMI and the BMI region associated with minimum mortality as identi ed in the lowess regression. The Cox model has the form log hi(a) = log h(a) + j/ jXji, where i subscripts an individual, and a indexes age measured in days. The baseline hazard function is h(a). jXj are estimated...
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Forecasting Mortality: A Parameterized Time Series Approach
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 645–660.
Published: 01 November 1989
... – 80 . Keyfitz , N. ( 1982 ). Choice of function for mortality analysis: Effective forecasting depends on a minimum parameter representation . Theoretical Population Biology , 21 , 329 – 352 . 10.1016/0040-5809(82)90022-3 Keyfitz, N. 1985. Demography in the twenty-first century...
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Extending the Lee-Carter Method to Model the Rotation of Age Patterns of Mortality Decline for Long-Term Projections
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2037–2051.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., even when costs of pregnancy are included. This excursion into evolutionary theory supports a simple prior for mortality in the distant future: it will remain U-shaped, with relatively high infant mortality, minimum mortality in the teens, and rising mortality thereafter. The forecast method we...
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View articletitled, Extending the Lee-Carter Method to Model the Rotation of Age Patterns of <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Decline for Long-Term Projections
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On the Beginning of Mortality Acceleration
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 39–60.
Published: 25 December 2014
... and Kaplan 2007 ; Vaupel 2003 , 2010 ), which implicitly challenges the evolutionary theorizations of aging (Baudisch and Vaupel 2012 ; Jones et al. 2014 ). Although very few empirical studies have addressed this issue, human mortality is generally thought to reach a minimum between 9 and 15 years...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 607–628.
Published: 01 April 2022
... policies moderated the effect of automation on mortality for middle-aged males: the effect of automation on drug overdose mortality and suicide mortality was more pronounced in states with “right-to-work” (RTW) laws and in states with lower minimum wage rates. Taken together, these findings demonstrate...
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View articletitled, Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the United States
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Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 621–644.
Published: 03 January 2019
....87.9.1491 . Komro , K. A. , Livingston , M. D. , Sara Markowitz , P. , & Wagenaar , A. C. ( 2016 ). The effect of an increased minimum wage on infant mortality and birth weight . American Journal of Public Health , 106 , 1514 – 1516 . 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303268...
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View articletitled, Educational Disparities in Adult <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?
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Three strikes and you're out: Demographic analysis of mandatory prison sentencing
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 445–463.
Published: 01 November 1998
... Association of America 1998 1998 Prison Population Minimum Sentence Multistate Life Table Sentencing Policy Prison Admission References Bales , WD. , & Dees , L.G. ( 1992 ). Mandatory Minimum Sentencing in Florida: Past Trends and Future Implications . Crime and Delinquency...
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in The Impact of Childhood Mortality on Fertility in Rural Tanzania: Evidence From the Ifakara and Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems
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Published: 01 December 2023
of minimum and maximum extremes in the distribution of durations.
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A simple model for linking life tables by survival-mortality ratios
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Demography (1983) 20 (2): 227–234.
Published: 01 May 1983
... that the force of mortality attained its minimum value at time t at an age that is younger than that at time O. In most life tables, and in fact in all model life tables, the force of mortality assumes its only minimum value at a young age (under 15) and this age of minimum force of mortal- ity is found...
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Age and parity influences on maternal mortality: United States, 1919–1969
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 297–310.
Published: 01 August 1977
... intervals (birth intervals will not be discussed in this research because data are not available to deal with the issue in an historical context) have a significant impact on maternal mortality (Buchanan, 1975; Eaton and Mayer, 1953; Nortman, 1974; Yerushalmy, 1940). To achieve an irreducible minimum...
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On the efficiency of the estimates of life table functions
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 421–426.
Published: 01 August 1973
... in the minimum V (eo) depends on the knowledge of functions like age-specific mortality rates that are yet to be esti- mated. These results are also expected, since in all problems of optimum alloca- tion of samples into subgroups, the characteristics of the subgroups enter into the final equation. Accordingly...
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Fertility and replacement: Some alternative stochastic models and results for Brazil
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 519–536.
Published: 01 November 1984
..., and the proportion of these deaths that are replaced by a subsequent birth. In this paper we estimate the parameters of the assumed distributions of these three events using a minimum distance estimation model and data from the 1970 Brazilian census. The parameter estimates are shown to be similar to those obtained...
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A Kin-Based measure of r and an evaluation of its effectiveness
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 February 1984
...- mum age for childbearing (ex) was 17 and the maximum age (/3) 45. Thus 28 ({3 - ex) was the minimum age for the individuals from whom kin were counted for the computations of Z and S. The guiding rates were applied uni- formly to all of the simulations within each of the six sets. The stochastic na...
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Compensating changes in fertility and mortality
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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 357–368.
Published: 01 August 1976
... circumstances, the type of mortality change depicted in (29) is not possible in practice, since the minimum death rate for females in 1939-1941 was .003356 in the age interval 10-14, and a reduction in death rates by .006924 at all ages would imply negative mortality at some ages. CaseIV An alternative pattern...
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