Outsurvival as a measure of the inequality of lifespans between two populations

James W Vaupel, Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Ilya Kashnitsky and Virginia Zarulli

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Abstract: Background: Inequality in lifespans between two populations, e.g., males and females or people with low and high SES, is a focus of demographic, economic and sociological research and of public policy analysis. Inequality is usually measured by differences in life expectancy. Analysis of the overlap of lifespan distributions can also be informative. Objective: To devise a cogent measure of how much distributions of lifespans differ between two populations. Results: We propose an outsurvival statistic, φ, that measures the probability that an individual from a population with low life expectancy will live longer than an individual from a population with high life expectancy. Contribution: Our new measure complements life expectancy to provide a more nuanced view of the inequality of lifespans between two populations.

Date: 2020-10-18
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