Demography. Broken limits to life expectancy.

By Jim Oeppen, James W. Vaupel. 2002

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Coherent mortality forecasts for a group of populations: An extension of the lee-carter method (2005, background): “Such a change oflead ing country occurred many times in the twentieth century ( Oeppen and Vaupel 2002 ), but the divergence in life expectancy did not.”
Longevity and environmental quality in an OLG model (2010, methodology): “As far as production parameters are concerned, α is fixed to 0.36, in conformity with the literature (see de la Croix and Michel 2002 ), while the scale parameter A is fixed to 10.”
Live Longer, Work Longer: Making It Happen in the Labor Market (2008, positive): “According to Oeppen and Vaupel (2002), the four-decade increase in life expectancy during 1840—2000 was remarkably linear, with a slope equal to 0.”
The role for endoplasmic reticulum stress in diabetes mellitus. (2008, neutral): “World life expectancy has increased by 2-fold in the past two centuries (167).”
Smoothing and projecting age-specific probabilities of death by TOPALS (2012, positive): “Oeppen and Vaupel (2002) argue that there is no sign of a slowing down in the increase in life expectancy.”