In the current context of increasing disparities in mortality within the most developed countries and given the growing divergence in trends at the national level between the United States and other high-income countries, the purpose of the proposed project is dual. First, we will build two databases of historical mortality indicators at the regional level in France (for the départements) and in the United states (for the counties) using the same set of methods. Then, we will use the resulting data series to compare the levels and trends in geographic inequalities in the length of life and their role in the increasing divergence in life expectancy at birth at the national level between the two countries.
UC PI:
Magali Barbieri
Department of Demography, UC Berkeley
France PI:
Hippolyte D'Albis
Paris School of Economics