Prior work has highlighted increases in life expectancy in the USA during the Great Depression. This contradicts the tenet that life expectancy is positively correlated with human welfare, but it coheres with recent literature on mortality and recessions. We construct Lee-Carter interval estimates of ...
Over the past 160 years, life expectancy (from birth) in the United States has risen from 39.4 years in 1860, to 78.9 years in 2020. One of the major reasons for the overall increase of life expectancy in the last two centuries is the fact that the infant and child mortality rates have...
In this study, we use long-term follow-up survey data to explore the inequality of the healthy life expectancy among the elderly and the trends of such expectancy among different birth cohorts and at different ages. The results show that older people wit
Life expectancy of Irish travellers still at 1940s levels despite economic boom ; EUROPERead the full-text online article and more details about Life Expectancy of Irish Travellers Still at 1940s Levels despite Economic Boom ; EUROPE.McKittrick, David...
IN a recent communication (Philippina, 1, 217; 1940) emanating from the Institute of Hygiene of the University of the Philippines, A. G. Sison, H. Lara, ?. ?. Herbosa and A. A. Lozano have compiled an instructive paper illustrated by 25 tables and 12 graphs of the life expectancy ...
Going from an average age of 21 in Rome and only 1 in 100 living to age 38 in the Roman legion to people living longer in pre industrial America had much to do with better living conditions, hygienic practices, and better food. The average life expectancy in the US was 46 in 1900. ...
In 1911 the life expectancy at birth for females was 53 years; for males it was 50 years. Grandma was born in 1895. I don’t have data for people born in 1895, but assume that the life expectancy was even lower then than in 1911. Grandma lived longer than average. She died in 1981...
Superfund sites could affect life expectancy (LE) via increasing the likelihood of exposure to toxic chemicals. Here, we assess to what extent such presence could alter the LE independently and in the context of sociodemographic determinants. A nationwid
In the dark days of 1939, Adam managed to escape Russians in his section of occupied Poland, but his freedom was short lived when in 1940 he was then captured by the Gestapo in Hungary and thrown into a concentration camp near Budapest. The life expectancy of Polish Jews at the time was...
Improvements in human stature, real income and life expectancy have taken place at an unprecedented speed during the last 200 years. In the case of life expectancy at birth, the record has been broken at an amazingly constant pace since 1840. Females hav