Tag: life expectancy

Medical workers in hazmat suit working with laptop computer and micoroscope inside laboratory hospital during coronavirus outbreak

Yes, many died in 2020-21, but hopefully it is a one-shot event. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that life expectancy had dropped sharply in the wake of COVID-19, and the story was picked up by every media outlet.  But it’s not clear to me what this really means. Period lif…

Small Business Owner in a Shop

Abstract This paper examines the relationship between life expectancy and labor force participation at older ages. It uses information on life expectancy from the U.S. Small-Area Life Expectancy Estimates Project and information on labor force participation from the five-year American Community Survey. Critical components of the analysis include merging the Census-tract-level information from the two…