The threshold age of Keyfitz' entropy
Jos\'e Manuel Aburto, Jes\'us-Adri\'an Alvarez, Francisco, Villavicencio, James W. Vaupel

TL;DR
This paper investigates how Keyfitz' entropy, a measure of lifespan inequality, changes over time and identifies a threshold age where mortality improvements switch from reducing to increasing lifespan inequality.
Contribution
It provides a formal expression for the temporal change of Keyfitz' entropy and proves the existence of a threshold age affecting lifespan inequality.
Findings
Derived the time derivative of Keyfitz' entropy.
Proved the existence of a threshold age for mortality improvements.
Showed how age-specific mortality changes influence lifespan inequality.
Abstract
BACKGROUND Indicators of relative inequality of lifespans are important because they capture the dimensionless shape of aging. They are markers of inequality at the population level and express the uncertainty at the time of death at the individual level. In particular, Keyfitz' entropy represents the elasticity of life expectancy to a change in mortality and it has been used as an indicator of lifespan variation. However, it is unknown how this measure changes over time and whether a threshold age exists, as it does for other lifespan variation indicators. RESULTS The time derivative of can be decomposed into changes in life disparity and life expectancy at birth . Likewise, changes over time in are a weighted average of age-specific rates of mortality improvements. These weights reflect the sensitivity of and show how…
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TopicsComplex Systems and Time Series Analysis
