Tag: life expectancy
The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything we’ve seen Bombshell headlines like this popped up in major news outlets last November after the government reported that life expectancy in 2017 fell for the third year in a row. This is a troubling break from the steady improvements in lifespans since 1900, which wer…
Female longevity wasn’t always so common. 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…
