Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2011
hygiene and sanitation). In this paper we ask whether future improvements of life-expectancy will be bounded from above by … human life-span. Life-span, in contrast to life-expectancy, is conceptualized as a biological measure of longevity driven by … show that immutable life-span would put an upper limit on life-expectancy. We then show for a sample of developed countries …