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Life lived and left: Carey’s equality

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  • James W. Vaupel

    (Syddansk Universitet)

Abstract

In a stationary population, age composition and the distribution of remaining lifespans are identical. This equivalence can be used to estimate age structure if information is available on time to death.

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  • James W. Vaupel, 2009. "Life lived and left: Carey’s equality," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 20(3), pages 7-10.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:demres:v:20:y:2009:i:3
    DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.3
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    1. Joshua R. Goldstein, 2009. "Life lived equals life left in stationary populations," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 20(2), pages 3-6.
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    1. Ji Hwan Cha & Maxim Finkelstein, 2018. "On stochastic comparisons for population age and remaining lifetime," Statistical Papers, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 199-213, March.
    2. Timothy Riffe, 2015. "Renewal and stability in populations structured by remaining years of life," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2015-007, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    3. Timothy Riffe & Pil H. Chung & Jeroen J. A. Spijker & John MacInnes, 2015. "Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2015-003, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    4. James W. Vaupel & Francisco Villavicencio, 2018. "Life lived and left: Estimating age-specific survival in stable populations with unknown ages," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 39(37), pages 991-1008.

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    Keywords

    age estimation; age composition; remaining lifespan;
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    JEL classification:

    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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