Are mortality and life expectancy differences by socioeconomic groups increasing in the United States? Using a unique … by lifetime earnings for the 1983 to 2003 period. The results indicate a consistent increase in mortality differentials … point to almost five decades of increasing differential mortality in the United States. -- Differential mortality ; Life …

, gender, race, health, education, profession, income, and wealth - is sizable and has not declined in recent decades. The …

findings are consistent with the convergence of gender earning gap has occurred mainly due to women's responses to changing …