| Foreword | 6 |
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| Contents | 9 |
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| How long do we live? Demographic models and reflections on tempo effects: An introduction | 14 |
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| 1 Background | 14 |
| 2 Overview of the monograph | 16 |
| References | 21 |
| I. Theoretical basis for the mortality tempo effect | 22 |
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| Estimating mean lifetime | 23 |
| 1 Methods | 24 |
| 2 Results | 27 |
| 3 Conclusion | 35 |
| Acknowledgements | 36 |
| References | 36 |
| Appendix A | 37 |
| Appendix B | 38 |
| The quantum and tempo of life-cycle events | 40 |
| 1 Introduction | 40 |
| 2 Background: age-specific event rates | 41 |
| 3 Period quantum and tempo measures of the 2nd kind | 43 |
| 4 Period quantum and tempo measures of the 1st kind | 57 |
| 5 Conclusion | 67 |
| References | 69 |
| Appendix A: Relationship between the completed fertility rate and the weighted average of tempo-adjusted period total fertility rates | 73 |
| Appendix B: Comparison of measures of the 1st and 2nd kind | 74 |
| II. Critiques, extensions and applications of the mortality tempo effect | 77 |
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| Demographic translation and tempo effects: An accelerated failure time perspective | 78 |
| 1 Introduction | 78 |
| 2 Fertility | 80 |
| 3 Mortality | 88 |
| 4 Discussion | 98 |
| Acknowledgments | 100 |
| References | 100 |
| Lifesaving, lifetimes and lifetables | 102 |
| 1 Introduction | 102 |
| 2 How saving a life alters life expectancy | 104 |
| 3 Individual lifetimes | 106 |
| 4 The triangle of turbulence | 108 |
| 5 How large is the distortion? | 109<
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