Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009
Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we … life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is … primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …