Tag: Female-Male life expectancy gap

older couple smiling on the beach

In 2016, life expectancy at birth for women in the United States was 81.1, five years longer than that for men.  Everywhere in the world, without exception, women live longer than men.  However, a recent study by Claudia Goldin and Adriana Lleras-Muney points out that women did not always have a survival advantage.  In t…