Americans experience higher mortality than their peers in other high-income countries for
most of the life course, but recent work has shown that at the oldest ages they experience a …

Compared to other developed countries, the United States ranks poorly in terms of life
expectancy at age 50. We seek to shed light on the US's low life expectancy ranking by …

Objectives The articles examines the contribution of internal socioeconomic disparities in
mortality to the US international disadvantage in life expectancy at birth. Methods Using …

Recent research shows increasing inequality in mortality among middle‐aged and older
adults. But this is only part of the story. Inequality in mortality among young people has fallen …

Recent literature has documented a widening gap in mortality in the United States between
individuals with high socioeconomic status (SES) and low SES. An important question is …

Life expectancy at birth in the United States is among the lowest in the industrialized world
(Population Reference Bureau 2000). In addition, variability in the timing of death seems to …

The short summary of what I will discuss below is that Americans suffer higher death rates
from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, and infant …

Our concern is that stable differences between noncomparable subgroups are being
mistaken for time trends in a broader group—a phenomenon we term lagged selection bias …

Life expectancy at birth in the United States is among the lowest of all high-income
countries. Most recent studies have concentrated on older ages, finding that Americans have …

Over the past twenty years or so, patterns of mortality and health conditions in the US
population have developed two strong, disturbing traits. First, compared to other highincome …