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Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines: evidence from Union Army veterans

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: Infectious disease earlier in life had a scarring effect on older age mortality among those reaching middle age around 1900, with the strongest negative effect on survival of having grown up in a large city. The effect of reduced early life and young adult infectious disease rates accounts for 13% of the 21 percentage point increase in survival rates among 50–64 year old males in the 20th century. Reductions in mortality from infectious and other acute disease account for another 13% of the increase.

Source: Journal of Econometrics

DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4076(02)00159-8

Author: Dora L Costa

Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2891314451