The Construction Of Life Tables For The American Indian Population At The Turn Of The Twentieth ...

The Construction Of Life Tables For The American Indian Population At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century J. David Hacker, and Michael R. Haines, 2010   NBER Working Paper No. 16134 Issued in June 2010 NBER Program(s): DAE   This paper constructs new life tables for the American Indian population in the late nineteenth and early nineteenth centuries, thus pushing back the availability of age-specific mortality and life expectancy estimates nearly half a century. Because of the lack of...

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