Tag: mortality
The brief’s key findings are: Mortality rates, which determine life expectancy, are a key factor in cost projections for the Social Security program. Mortality rates consistently improve over time, but the pace of progress varies by year, by age, and by socioeconomic status. Over the past 40 years, progress has been driven by medical advances, better…
The brief’s key findings are: Due to rising life expectancies, many policy experts would encourage people to work longer. However, such changes assume all workers, regardless of socioeconomic status (SES), have experienced similar gains in life expectancy. In fact, between 1979 and 2011, the gain for men in the lowest education quartile was one third…
