Research Group

Lifespan Inequalities

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Why ages at death vary between countries and socioeconomic groups.

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Does it matter if everyone dies at similar ages, or if ages at death are highly spread out in society? These are the questions investigated by the Lifespan Inequalities research group. Typically, demographers look at average outcomes, such as life expectancy. This overlooks the variability in age at death, which is substantial, and differs across countries and socioeconomic groups.   Detailed Description

Selected Publications

van Raalte, A. A.; Sasson, I.; Martikainen, P.:

The case for monitoring life-span inequality

Science 362:6418, 1002–1004. (2018)    

Aburto, J. M.; van Raalte, A. A.:

Lifespan dispersion in times of life expectancy fluctuation: the case of Central and Eastern Europe

Demography 55:6, 2071–2096. (2018)    

Seaman, R. J.; Riffe, T.; Leyland, A. H.; Popham , F.; van Raalte, A. A.:

The increasing lifespan variation gradient by area-level deprivation: a decomposition analysis of Scotland 1981–2011

Social Science and Medicine 230, 147–157. (2019)       

Acosta, E.; van Raalte, A. A.:

APC curvature plots: displaying nonlinear age-period-cohort patterns on Lexis plots

Demographic Research 41:42, 1205–1234. (2019)       

Funding

The Lifespan Inequalities research group is funded by a starting grant from the European Research Council.