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Happiness and sex difference in life expectancy [PDF]

This paper examines the effects of happiness on the sex gap in life expectancy. Utilizing a cross-country data set, it first inspects the reverse effect of the life expectancy gap on happiness and demonstrates that the life expectancy gap negatively ...
Junji Kageyama
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Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth [PDF]

This paper presents a model in which inequality affects per capita income when individuals decide to invest in education taking into account their life expectancy, which depends to a large extent on the human capital of their parents.
Amparo Castello-Climent, Rafael Domenech
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Has the relation between income inequality and life expectancy disappeared? Evidence from Italy and top industrialised countries

, 2005
Objective: To investigate the relation between income inequality and life expectancy in Italy and across wealthy nations.Design and setting: Measure correlation between income inequality and life expectancy at birth within Italy and across the top 21 ...
De Vogli, R, Mistry, R, Gnesotto, R, De Vogli, R., Cornia, GA   +4 more
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Does living longer mean living healthier? A comprehensive analysis of 204 countries and regions from 1990 to 2019

BMC Public Health
Background The data from the WHO showed that life expectancy (LE) and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) at global level both increased from 2000 to 2019, while they did not increase at the same rate.
Bo Xiong, Yuxiao Chen, Ning Chen
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Analysis of life expectancy and cause-eliminated life expectancy of the registered residents in Qingpu District, Shanghai, 2002‒2021

Shanghai yufang yixue
ObjectiveTo analyze the trends in life expectancy and cause-eliminated life expectancy of the registered residents in Qingpu District, Shanghai from 2002 to 2021, and to identify the major diseases causing life expectancy loss in the area, so as to ...
HAN Rongrong, JIN Shan, FANG Liping, WANG Wu, ZHANG Jieyu, CAO Bo, XU Xingxing   +6 more
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Obesity and Trends in Life Expectancy

Journal of Obesity, 2012
Background. Increasing levels of obesity over recent decades have been expected to lead to an epidemic of diabetes and a subsequent reduction in life expectancy, but instead all-cause and cardiovascular-specific mortality rates have decreased steadily in
Helen L. Walls, Kathryn Backholer, Joseph Proietto, John J. McNeil   +3 more
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Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth [PDF]

What is the effect of increasing life expectancy on economic growth? To answer this question, we exploit the international epidemiological transition, the wave of international health innovations and improvements that began in the 1940s.
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
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Convergence or divergence of educational disparities in mortality and morbidity? The evolution of life expectancy and health expectancy by educational attainment in Austria in 1981-2006 [PDF]

The continuous increase in life expectancy in developed countries is typically associated with an increase in the number of years in good health, whereas the number of years in bad health rather stagnates.
Johannes Klotz
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Decomposition analysis of Spanish life expectancy at birth [PDF]

Using data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD), the paper analyzes the increase in the life expectancy of the Spanish population during the three decades, 1970-2001, in order to ascertain which age and sex groups have made the most progress in terms ...
Carl Boe, Rosa Gómez-Redondo
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Age-specific Income Inequality and Life Expectancy: New Evidence [PDF]

Objectives -- The study has two primary goals. First, to test the hypothesis that higher levels of income inequality are related to lower levels of population health with updated data from around year 2000.
Steven G. Prus, Robert L. Brown
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