Here's a New York Times article on a recent government study on life expectancies, which reportedly finds that the gap between the life expectancies of richer versus poorer Americans has increased over the last couple of decades. This certainly has potential implications for several areas of actuarial science: life and mortality analyses, pension valuations, etc.
As always, much of life expectancy dynamics is a function of a few key mortality issues -- e.g., note the references to differential infant mortality.
- Rick
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