دورية أكاديمية
The threshold age of the lifetable entropy
| العنوان: | The threshold age of the lifetable entropy |
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| المؤلفون: | José Manuel Aburto, Jesús-Adrián Alvarez, Francisco Villavicencio, James W. Vaupel |
| المصدر: | Demographic Research, Vol 41, p 4 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | lifespan variation, mathematical demography, mortality, pace of aging, Demography. Population. Vital events, HB848-3697 |
| الوصف: | Background : Indicators of relative variation of lifespans are markers of inequality at the population level and of uncertainty at the time of death at the individual level. In particular, the lifetable entropy H represents the elasticity of life expectancy to a change in mortality. However, it is unknown how this measure changes over time and whether a threshold age exists, as it does for other lifespan variation indicators. Results : The time derivative of H can be decomposed into changes in life disparity e† and life expectancy at birth eo. Likewise, changes over time in H are a weighted average of age-specific rates of mortality improvements. These weights reflect the sensitivity of H and show how mortality improvements can increase (or decrease) the relative inequality of lifespans. Further, we prove that in the assumption that mortality is reduced at all ages,H, as well as e†, has a threshold age below which saving lives reduces entropy, whereas improvements above that age increase entropy. Contribution : We give a formal expression for changes of H over time and provide a formal proof of the existence of a unique threshold age that separates reductions and increases in lifespan variation as a result age-specific mortality improvements. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1435-9871 |
| العلاقة: | https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol41/4Test/; https://doaj.org/toc/1435-9871Test; https://doaj.org/article/6f0610cc32df45f1b3c92ae3598792f7Test |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.4 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.4Test https://doaj.org/article/6f0610cc32df45f1b3c92ae3598792f7Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.E26D1C6A |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 14359871 |
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| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.4 |