It is widely known that shifts of cohort fertility schedule can produce misleading trends in period TFR. This note shows that such a “tempo bias” can occur in age-specific mortality as well: if the age distribution of cohort deaths shifts toward older (younger) ages, the period age-specific death rate is biased downward (upward).
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Horiuchi, S. (2008). Tempo effect on age-specific death rates. In Demographic Research Monographs (pp. 191–201). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78520-0_10
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