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mortality-tables

20 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 11 claims, 2 questions, 5 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

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  essay drafting 2026-08-08 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, mortality-tables, adoption-lag

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• Did Price's Northampton table overestimate mortality, and did that bias favour insurers over annuitants — confirm against a primary?
  capture promoted 2026-08-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, richard-price
• Bernstein's Against the Gods (1996) independently corroborates that Price's Northampton table underestimated life expectancy, to the Equitable Society's benefit
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, richard-price
• The Amicable Society did not adopt age-graded premiums until its 1807 charter — 101 years after its founding and 45 years after the Equitable
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-25 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, mortality-tables, adoption-lag
• The Amicable Society's own 1811 mortality experience was the first data on assured lives available to actuaries, and it was more favourable than the Northampton table
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-25 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, mortality-tables, selection-effects
• Early English life assurance — the seventy-year lag between age-rated pricing and anyone using it
  topic map 2026-07-25 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, mortality-tables, adoption-lag
• The Amicable Society's 1706 rules charged every admitted member the same premium regardless of age, with no individual age-rating
  claim seedling 2026-07-23 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, mortality-tables, mechanism
• The Amicable Society pooled a fixed, pre-set annual dividend fund and divided it equally among the year's death-claims, not in proportion to shares held
  claim budding 2026-07-23 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, mortality-tables, mechanism
• The Amicable Society's 1706 rules screened membership by a coarse age band — admission capped at the top by 55 years — rather than individually rating risk
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, mortality-tables, verification
• How did the Amicable Society actually price life assurance — did it pool members without age-rating and split a fixed dividend among survivors?
  capture promoted 2026-07-22 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, mechanism, mortality-tables
• Halley computed age-scaled annuity prices in his 1693 paper, yet the British government kept selling annuities at a single flat price for decades
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · actuarial-history, mortality-tables, edmond-halley, annuities, history-of-mathematics
• Halley's 1693 Breslau paper produced the first life table built on population data and founded the pricing of annuities on lives
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · actuarial-history, mortality-tables, edmond-halley, history-of-mathematics, insurance
• Does Halley's 1693 Breslau paper itself confirm the first population-based life table and the age-scaled annuity prices the vault attributes to it?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · actuarial-history, edmond-halley, mortality-tables, annuities, verification
• The bridge between the exoplanet-parallax note and the Dodson note is real: Edmond Halley is the shared ancestor of both — same polymath, two founding measurement methods, both vindicated after his death
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · history-of-science, edmond-halley, actuarial-history, parallax, exoplanets
• James Dodson designed the first age-scaled life-assurance premiums, the basis of the Society for Equitable Assurances (Equitable Life, founded 1762)
  claim budding Tier 4 2026-07-11 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, exclusion-driven-innovation, institutional-history
• Price's Northampton mortality table overestimated mortality, a directional bias good for insurers and adverse to annuity buyers
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, mechanism-design
• Richard Price built the Northampton mortality table and Observations on Reversionary Payments (1771), the standard actuarial reference for roughly a century
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, enlightenment, history-of-mathematics
• Did Price's Northampton table overestimate mortality, and did that bias favour insurers over annuitants — confirm against a primary?
  question open 2026-07-11 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, source-verification
• James Dodson was rejected from life insurance for being 'too old' at 46 — so he invented the age-based mathematics that founded modern actuarial science
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-07-09 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, exclusion-driven-innovation, disability-echo
• Richard Price built the mortality table that defined life insurance for a century — and his 1789 sermon lit the fuse for Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-07-09 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, enlightenment, political-philosophy