Rising Mortality and Life Expectancy Differentials by Lifetime Earnings in the United States

Julian Cristia ()

No 4607, Research Department Publications from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Abstract: Are mortality and life expectancy differences by socioeconomic groups increasing in the United States? Using a unique data set matching high-quality administrative records with survey data, this study explores trends in these differentials by lifetime earnings for the 1983 to 2003 period. The results indicate a consistent increase in mortality differentials across sex and age groups. The study also finds a substantial increase in life expectancy differentials: the top-to-bottom quintile premium increased around 30 percent for men and almost doubled for women. These results complement recent research to point to almost five decades of increasing differential mortality in the United States.

Keywords: Differential mortality; Life expectancy; Lifetime earnings; Trends (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-hap, nep-hea and nep-lab
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (49)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.iadb.org/research/pub_hits.cfm?pub_id=W ... e_name=pubWP-665.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.iadb.org/research/pub_hits.cfm?pub_id=WP-665&pub_file_name=pubWP-665.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.iadb.org/research/pub_hits.cfm?pub_id=WP-665&pub_file_name=pubWP-665.pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Rising mortality and life expectancy differentials by lifetime earnings in the United States (2009)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:idb:wpaper:4607

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Research Department Publications from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Felipe Herrera Library ().