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Assessing the rate of ageing of the human population

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  • Elisabetta Barbi

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  • Elisabetta Barbi, 2003. "Assessing the rate of ageing of the human population," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2003-008, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:wpaper:wp-2003-008
    DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2003-008
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    1. Elena Demuru & Viviana Egidi, 2016. "Adjusting prospective old-age thresholds by health status: empirical findings and implications. A case study of Italy," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 14(1), pages 131-154.
    2. Rasmus Hoffmann, 2005. "Does the socioeconomic mortality gradient interact with age? Evidence from US survey data and Danish register data," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2005-020, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    3. Giambattista Salinari & Gustavo De Santis, 2020. "One or more rates of ageing? The extended gamma-Gompertz model (EGG)," Statistical Methods & Applications, Springer;Società Italiana di Statistica, vol. 29(2), pages 211-236, June.

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