Goda, Gopi Shah; Shoven, John; Slavov, Sita - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2008
When Social Security was instituted in 1935, the period life expectancy at age 20 for males was 66 and for females 69. Today, 20-year-old males have a period life expectancy of 76 and females, 80. This increase in life expectancy has been accompanied by a corresponding improvement in health at...