Volume 51 - Article 45 | Pages 1429–1470  

Improving old-age mortality estimation with parental survival histories in surveys

By Bruno Masquelier, Ashira Menashe-Oren, Benjamin-Samuel Schlüter, Atoumane Fall, Stephane Helleringer

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