Overview
Vladimir Canudas-Romo is a demographer whose work focuses on mortality measurement, demographic decomposition methods, and population dynamics. At the time of the Schoen and Canudas-Romo (2005) paper he was at the Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University. He is known for the Vaupel-Canudas-Romo (2002) decomposition framework for separating direct (quantum) and compositional effects in changing demographic rates, and for co-developing the ACLE measure with Robert Schoen.
Key Contributions / Features
- Vaupel and Canudas-Romo (2002, Demographic Research 7: 1–14): Co-developer of the direct vs. compositional decomposition framework for changes in weighted demographic averages; provides the mathematical foundation for ACLE decomposition in the 2005 paper.
- Schoen and Canudas-Romo (2005, Demographic Research 13: 117–142): Co-developer of ACLE (Average Cohort Life Expectancy); showed CAL's sensitivity to tempo effects; empirical application to three Western European countries 1880–2000.
- Canudas-Romo (2003, Rozenberg Publishers): Decomposition Methods in Demography — doctoral dissertation laying out decomposition methods applied to demographic change; provides the discrete-data approximation techniques used in the 2005 appendix.
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