At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Basic Research in Mortality Modeling

Roland Rau, Marcus Ebeling, Trifon Missov, Torsten Sauer, Christina Bohk-Ewald (University of Helsinki, Finland), Frederik Peters (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany); in Collaboration with Anders Ahlbom, Karin Modig (both: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), Annette Baudisch (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark), Joel E. Cohen (Rockefeller University, New York, USA)

We conduct basic research to gain a deeper understanding of the root causes of mortality from a demographic perspective. The work is done together with researchers from the Karolinska Institute, Rockefeller University, the University of Southern Denmark, and the Freshpond Research Institute in the United States.   Detailed Description

Publications

Cohen, J. E.; Bohk-Ewald, C.; Rau, R.:

Gompertz, Makeham, and Siler models explain Taylor's law in human mortality data

Demographic Research 38:29, 773–842. (2018)    

Ebeling, M.:

How has the lower boundary of human mortality evolved, and has it already stopped decreasing?

Demography 55:5, 1887–1903. (2018)    

Ebeling, M.; Rau, R.; Baudisch, A.:

Rectangularization of the survival curve reconsidered: the maximum inner rectangle approach

Population Studies 72:3, 369–379. (2018)    

Rau, R.; Ebeling, M.; Peters, F.; Bohk-Ewald, C.; Missov, T. I.:

Where is the level of the mortality plateau?

In: 2017 Living to 100 monograph, 1–21. Schaumburg, IL: Society of Actuaries. (2017)