Decomposing Mortality Improvement Rates into Cause-Specific Contributions

September 2023 Authors: Frank van Berkum of the Research Centre for Longevity Risk and the Actuarial Sciences and Mathematical Finance Research Group at the University…

Journals

August 25, 2023

Estimating neighbourhood death rates using the random forest algorithm

Summary: Recent decades have seen increasing evidence for inequality in mortality for different socio-economic groups in various national populations. In this article, published by the…

Journals

August 21, 2023

Accounting for COVID-19-type shocks in mortality modeling: a comparative study

Summary: Mortality shocks such as the one induced by the COVID-19 pandemic have substantial impact on mortality models. We describe how to deal with them…

Research Centre for Longevity Risk

The Research Centre for Longevity Risk (RCLR) is an independent institute that researches developments in survival rates and life expectancies of the population in the Netherlands and other countries and how these are influenced by various factors.