Vaupel, James W.; Rau, Roland; Camarda, Carlo Giovanni; … - Center for Retirement Research (CRR), Boston College - 2006
We investigate whether heterogeneity can explain the differences in mortality between the United States and a more homogeneous country, i.e. Japan. The background of the analysis is the growing gap between life-expectancy in the United States and the world record leader since the 1980s. This...