Insight into the Female Longevity Puzzle: Using Register Data to Analyse Mortality and Cause of Death Behaviour Across Socio-economic Groups

Malene Kallestrup-Lamb () and Carsten P.T. Rosenskjold ()
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Malene Kallestrup-Lamb: Aarhus University and CREATES, Postal: Department of Economics and Business Economics, Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark
Carsten P.T. Rosenskjold: Aarhus University and CREATES, Postal: Department of Economics and Business Economics, Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark

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Abstract: This paper analyses the complexity of female longevity improvements. As socio-economic status influence health and mortality, we partition all individuals, at each age and year, into ten socio-economic groups based on an affluence measure. We identify the particular socio-economic groups that have been driving the standstill for Danish women and within each socio-economic group we further analyse the cause of death pattern. Further, we compare the forecast performance of the Lee-Carter model with the multi-population Li and Lee model. The decline in life expectancy for Danish women is present for all subgroups, however with particular large decreases for the low-middle and middle affluence groups. We find that causes of deaths related to smoking partly contribute to the slowdown in female longevity. However the lack of improvements in deaths relating to ischemic heart diseases is dominant in explaining the slowdown and the following catch up effect in life expectancies.

Keywords: Mortality; Affluence Groups; Social Inequality; Cause of Death; Health; Multi-population Modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 G22 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40
Date: 2017-02-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dem, nep-eur and nep-hea
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