Inequality in life expectancies across Europe and the US
利用欧美家庭面板数据，研究50岁人群在总预期寿命、健康和不健康年数上的教育与性别不平等，发现男性教育优势在总寿命上更大，女性在减少不健康年数上优势更大，美国健康预期寿命的教育梯度最大。
We use harmonized household panel data from Europe and the US and a three-state survival model to provide comparable measurements of education and gender inequalities in total, healthy, and unhealthy life expectancies at age 50. Common across countries, the education advantage in total life expectancy is larger for males but the education advantage in (fewer) unhealthy years is larger for females. Counterfactual decompositions show that these results arise because the education advantage in conditional survival rates is relatively more important for males, while the education advantage in better health transitions is relatively more important for females. Across countries, the US stands out with the largest education gradient in healthy life expectancy.