The gap gets bigger: Changes on mortality and life expectancy, by education, 1981-2000
The gap gets bigger: Changes on mortality and life expectancy, by education, 1981-2000
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DOI：
10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.350
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
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影响因子：
9.7
通讯作者：
Cutler, David M.
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作者：
Meara, Ellen R.;Richards, Seth;Cutler, David M.
在这篇论文中，我们考察了20世纪80年代和90年代非西班牙裔黑人和白人在死亡率和预期寿命方面的教育差异。尽管越来越多的关注和大量资金投向了种族和性别群体中的低社会经济地位群体，但预期寿命方面的教育差距正在扩大，这主要是因为老年人之间的差距越来越大。除了黑人男性，最近所有25岁预期寿命的增长都发生在受过更好教育的群体中，使预期寿命的教育差异增加了30%。吸烟相关疾病的不同趋势至少解释了这一趋势的20%。
In this paper we examine educational disparities in mortality and life expectancy among non-Hispanic blacks and whites in the 1980s and 1990s. Despite increased attention and substantial dollars directed to groups with low socioeconomic status, within race and gender groups, the educational gap in life expectancy is rising, mainly because of rising differentials among the elderly. With the exception of black males, all recent gains in life expectancy at age twenty-five have occurred among better-educated groups, raising educational differentials in life expectancy by 30 percent. Differential trends in smoking-related diseases explain at least 20 percent of this trend.