ArticleDemography2014
Why lifespans are more variable among blacks than among whites in the United States.
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- Increased homicide played a key role in driving Black-White disparities in life expectancy among men during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2024Article
- Black and white differences in subjective survival expectations: An evaluation of competing mechanisms.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Exploring inequalities in life expectancy and lifespan variation by race/ethnicity and urbanicity in the United States: 1990 to 2019.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Mortality disparities between Black and White Americans mediated by income and health behaviors.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Racial-ethnic inequities in age at death among adults with/without intellectual and developmental disability in the United States.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- From convergence to divergence: Lifespan variation in US states, 1959-2017.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Progress of Inequality in Age at Death in India: Role of Adult Mortality.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2021Article
- Social Inequality and the Future of U.S. Life Expectancy.Annual review of sociology · 2021Article
- The color of death: race, observed skin tone, and all-cause mortality in the United States.Ethnicity & health · 2020Article
- Lifespan Dispersion in Times of Life Expectancy Fluctuation: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe.Demography · 2018Article
- Potential gains in life expectancy by reducing inequality of lifespans in Denmark: an international comparison and cause-of-death analysis.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Equity and length of lifespan are not the same.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment: United States, 1990-2010.Demography · 2016Article
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- Black and White Differences in Life Expectancy in 4 US States, 1969-2013.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Lifespans are both shorter and more variable for blacks than for whites in the United States. Because their lifespans are more variable, there is greater inequality in length of life-and thus greater uncertainty about the future-among blacks. This study is the first to decompose the black-white difference in lifespan variability in America. Are lifespans more variable for blacks because they are more likely to die of causes that disproportionately strike the young and middle-aged, or because age at death varies more for blacks than for whites among those who succumb to the same cause? We find that it is primarily the latter. For almost all causes of death, age at death is more variable for blacks than it is for whites, especially among women. Although some youthful causes of death, such as homicide and HIV/AIDS, contribute to the black-white disparity in variance, those contributions are largely offset by the higher rates of suicide and drug poisoning deaths for whites. As a result, differences in the causes of death for blacks and whites account, on net, for only about one-eighth of the difference in lifespan variance.
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