The implications of changing education distributions for life expectancy gradients.

ABSTRACT: Recent research has proposed that shifting education distributions across cohorts are influencing estimates of educational gradients in mortality. We use data from the United States and Finland covering four decades to explore this assertion. We base our analysis around our new finding: a negative logarithmic relationship between relative education and relative mortality. This relationship holds across multiple age groups, both sexes, two very different countries, and time periods spanning four decades. The inequality parameters from this model indicate increasing relative mortality differentials over time. We use these findings to develop a method that allows us to compute life expectancy for any given segment of the education distribution (e.g., education quintiles). We apply this method

SUBMITTER: Hendi AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7969123 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature