Did Men Benefit More from Medical Progress in Recent Decades? Cause-of-Death Contributions to the Decreasing Sex-Gap in Life Expectancy in the United States
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Keywords
sex-gap in mortality; causes of death; medically amenable mortality; policy amenable mortality; sex differences in life expectancy; United States;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J19 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Other
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2014-10-03 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-HEA-2014-10-03 (Health Economics)
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