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Breaking Life Expectancy into Small Pieces

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  • Audrey Ugarte
  • Onofre Alves Simões

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Understanding mortality patterns and how they evolve in time has always been a challenging subject and many researchers have worked on it.We wish to enhance existing knowledge on the topic, by decomposing the effects on mortality of more than400 combinations of “age class/Mortality Chapter”,in three countries with different characteristics and for a period of 44 years. Using classic decomposition methods, it is possible to observe a steady increase in Life Expectancy at birth and a decrease in the Gender Gap, identifying the main contributors to the phenomena in terms of “age class/Mortality Chapter”.Another finding is the existence of important similarities among countries.

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  • Audrey Ugarte & Onofre Alves Simões, 2020. "Breaking Life Expectancy into Small Pieces," Working Papers REM 2020/0154, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.
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    Life Expectancy; Mortality Chapters; Human Mortality and Cause of Death Databases; France; Czech Republic; USA;
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