Goldin, Claudia; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2018
life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men … mortality and fertility are not the reasons. Rather, we argue that the sharp reduction in infectious disease in the early … the ages of 5 and 25. Increased longevity of women, therefore, occurred as the burden of infectious disease fell for all …