Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment: United States, 1990-2010.

ABSTRACT: The educational gradient in life expectancy is well documented in the United States and in other low-mortality countries. Highly educated Americans, on average, live longer than their low-educated counterparts, who have recently seen declines in adult life expectancy. However, limiting the discussion on lifespan inequality to mean differences alone overlooks other dimensions of inequality and particularly disparities in lifespan variation. The latter represents a unique form of inequality, with higher variation translating into greater uncertainty in the time of death from an individual standpoint, and higher group heterogeneity from a population perspective. Using data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1990 to 2010, this is the first study to document trends in both life expe

SUBMITTER: Sasson I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4819799 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature