全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP13184 Inequality in Life Expectancies across Europe

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP13184
	DP13184 Inequality in Life Expectancies across Europe
	Radim Bohacek; Jesus Bueren; Laura Crespo; Pedro Mira; Josep Pijoan-Mas
发表日期	2018-09-17
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	We use harmonized household panel data from 10 European countries (SHARE), the US (HRS), and England (ELSA) to provide novel and comparable measurements of education and gender differences in life expectancy, years in disability, and the underlying multi-state life tables. Common across countries we find substantial interactions between socio-economic status and gender: (a) the education advantage in life expectancy is larger for males, while the education advantage in disability years is larger for females; and relatedly (b) the female advantage in life expectancy and the female disadvantage in disability years are both greatly reduced with education. These interactions happen because the education advantage is relatively more important in health transitions than in conditional survival among females, whereas the converse is true among males. Looking at the differences across countries, inequalities are largest in Eastern Europe and lowest in Scandinavia, while the US stands out as the most unequal across education groups in terms of health transitions and disability-free life expectancy. Finally, we find that countries with higher public health spending have smaller education advantage in conditional survival, the same advantage in health transitions, and smaller gradients in life expectancy.
主题	Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Life expectancy Healthy life expectancy Education gradient Gender gap
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp13184-0
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541988
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Radim Bohacek,Jesus Bueren,Laura Crespo,et al. DP13184 Inequality in Life Expectancies across Europe. 2018.