Session 55:
Methodological Issues in Health and Mortality
Chair: Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: John R. Wilmoth, United Nations
Coherent Forecasting of Multiple-Decrement Life Tables: A Test Using Japanese Cause of Death Data • James E Oeppen, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
The Absolute and Relative Effects of Cohort and Period Mortality Shocks on Later Mortality • Mikko Myrskylä, University of Pennsylvania
Death Distribution Methods for Estimating Adult Mortality: Sensitivity Analysis with Simulated Data Errors, Revisited • Rob Dorrington, University of Cape Town ; Ian M Timaeus, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Examining Variance in World Life Spans since 1960 • Ryan D. Edwards, Queens College (CUNY)
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