Demographic Techniques of Decomposition: A New Approach and Comparing It to Previous Methods • Vladimir Canudas Romo, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

The Momentum of Mortality Decline • Michel Guillot, University of Wisconsin at Madison

A Dynamic Model of Amniocentesis • V. Joseph Hotz, University of California at Los Angeles ; Seth G. Sanders, University of Maryland

How Many Parameters Are Necessary--or Sufficient? A Comparison of the Brass and Lee-Carter Mortality Models • Andrew Noymer, University of California at Berkeley