Cause-of-death contributions to declining mortality improvements and life expectancies using cause-specific scenarios

Summary: In recent years, improvements in all-cause mortality rates and life expectancies for males and females in England and Wales have slowed down. In this…

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October 24, 2023

A quest for the source of developments in life expectancy

Summary: Life expectancy has changed substantially over the past few decades, and different causes of death have contributed to these changes. In this article, we…

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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…

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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…

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May 27, 2023

Modelling socio-economic mortality at neighbourhood level

We quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and life expectancy and identify combinations of socio-economic variables that are particularly useful for explaining mortality differences between…

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April 5, 2023

The impact of simultaneous shocks to financial markets and mortality on pension buy-out prices

Summary: For pricing any contingent claim that depends on financial risks and mortality an assumption has to be made about the dependency structure between the…

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