Decomposing Current Mortality Differences Into Initial Differences and Differences in Trends: The Contour Decomposition Method
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DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0599-6
Abstract: This study proposes a new decomposition method that permits a difference in an aggregate measure at a final time point to be split into additive components corresponding to the initial differences in the event rates… read more here.
Keywords: differences trends; initial differences; decomposition method; method ... See more keywords