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What have we learned about mortality patterns over the past 25 years?

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In this paper, I examine progress in the field of mortality over the past 25 years. I argue that we have been most successful in taking advantage of an increasingly data-rich environment to improve aggregate mortality models and test pre-existing theories. Less progress has been made in relating our estimates of mortality risk at the individual level to broader mortality patterns at the population level while appropriately accounting for contextual differences and compositional change. Overall, I find that the field of mortality continues to be highly visible in demographic journals, including Population Studies. However much of what is published today in field journals could just as easily appear in neighbouring disciplinary journals, as disciplinary boundaries are shrinking.

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  • Alyson A. van Raalte, 2021. "What have we learned about mortality patterns over the past 25 years?," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 75(S1), pages 105-132, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpstxx:v:75:y:2021:i:s1:p:105-132
    DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2021.1967430
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    1. Henrik Brønnum-Hansen & Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos Espiñeira & Camila Perera & Ingelise Andersen, 2023. "Trends in mortality patterns in two countries with different welfare models: comparisons between Cuba and Denmark 1955–2020," Journal of Population Research, Springer, vol. 40(2), pages 1-28, June.
    2. Breen, Casey & Seltzer, Nathan, 2023. "The Unpredictability of Individual-Level Longevity," SocArXiv znsqg, Center for Open Science.

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