The Future of Life Expectancy: A Discussion with Angus Deaton
New Books in Economics
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What Is Life Expectancy?
The underlying thing utwhich underlies all these vensures are of how long might live, are mortality rates. And life expectancy is just one way taking a sort of average with those numbers. So to find out how that baby is actually going to live, have to make also a forecast about what mortality rates are gon be 50 years from now. But if it goes away, say in 20 22, life expectancy ill shoot back up again. Let's get into the wy then.
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