Understanding the Rise in Life Expectancy Inequality
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Understanding the Rise in Life Expectancy Inequality. / Dahl, Gordon B.; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Nielsen, Torben Heien; Serena, Benjamin Ly.
I: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, s. 1-33.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Understanding the Rise in Life Expectancy Inequality
AU - Dahl, Gordon B.
AU - Kreiner, Claus Thustrup
AU - Nielsen, Torben Heien
AU - Serena, Benjamin Ly
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - We provide a novel decomposition of changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality rates and differences in “survivability”. Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life expectancy, but the gain is small if the likelihood of living to this age is small (ex-ante survivability) or if the expected remaining lifetime is short (ex-post survivability). Lower survivability of the poor explains half of the recent rise in inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Declines in cardiovascular mortality benefited rich and poor, but inequality increased because of differences in lifestyle-related survivability.
AB - We provide a novel decomposition of changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality rates and differences in “survivability”. Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life expectancy, but the gain is small if the likelihood of living to this age is small (ex-ante survivability) or if the expected remaining lifetime is short (ex-post survivability). Lower survivability of the poor explains half of the recent rise in inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Declines in cardiovascular mortality benefited rich and poor, but inequality increased because of differences in lifestyle-related survivability.
U2 - 10.1162/rest_a_01148
DO - 10.1162/rest_a_01148
M3 - Journal article
SP - 1
EP - 33
JO - Review of Economics and Statistics
JF - Review of Economics and Statistics
SN - 0034-6535
ER -
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