Volume 29 - Article 13 | Pages 323–354
Impact of different mortality forecasting methods and explicit assumptions on projected future life expectancy: The case of the Netherlands
By Lenny Stoeldraijer, Coen van Duin, Leo van Wissen, Fanny Janssen
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