Tag: life expectancy
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…
The brief’s key findings are: As life expectancy rises, more retirees face the higher poverty risk associated with very old ages due to declining resources, cumulative inflation, and widowhood. In response, some propose boosting Social Security for the oldest old by either: adopting an annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for all retirees that more closely matches t…
