State Level Differences in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Inequality: Is it a Matter of Socioeconomic Inequalities?
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Keywords
Lifespan inequality; Theil index; Socioeconomic inequality; United States;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J19 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2024-12-30 (Demographic Economics)
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