Income and Longevity Revisited: Do High-earning Women Live Longer?

Friedrich Breyer and Jan Marcus

No 2011-13, Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz from Department of Economics, University of Konstanz

Abstract: The empirical relationship between income and longevity has been addressed by a large number of studies, but most were confined to men. For the first time we analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non-parametric and parametric methods. We find that the relationship between earnings and life expectancy is similar for women and men: Among women who contributed at least for 25 years, women at the 90th percentile of the income distribution can expect to live 3 years longer than women at the 10th percentile.

Keywords: Life expectancy and income; women; public pensions; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2011-05-16
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