TY  - JOUR
AU  - Baker, Michael
AU  - Currie, Janet
AU  - Schwandt, Hannes
TI  - Mortality Inequality in Canada and the U.S.: Divergent or Convergent Trends?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 23514
PY  - 2017
Y2  - June 2017
DO  - 10.3386/w23514
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23514
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23514.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Michael Baker
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3G7
CANADA
Tel: 416/978-4138
Fax: 416/978-6713
E-Mail: baker@chass.utoronto.ca

Janet Currie
Department of Economics
Center for Health and Wellbeing
185A Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-7393
E-Mail: jcurrie@princeton.edu

Hannes Schwandt
School of Education and Social Policy
Northwestern University
2120 Campus Drive
Evanston, Il 60208
E-Mail: schwandt@northwestern.edu
M1  - published as Michael Baker, Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt. "Mortality Inequality in Canada and the United States: Divergent or Convergent Trends?," in Philip Oreopoulos and David Card, organizers, "Small Differences II: Public Policies in Canada and the United States" The University of Chicago Press, Journal of Labor Economics volume 37, S2 (2019)

AB  - Mortality is a crucial indicator of wellbeing and recent mortality trends have been a subject of public debate in many Western countries. This paper compares mortality inequality in Canada and the U.S. over the period 1990/91 through 2010/11. In Canada, mortality inequality remained constant among the youngest, but increased for men over 24 and for women over 14. In contrast, in the U.S. mortality inequality fell for children and youth, while at older ages it either modestly decreased or held steady. By 2010/11 the initially higher U.S. rates of infant and child mortality had almost converged to their Canadian counterparts.
ER  -