From the Inequalities blog, this stunning graph, which shows life expectancy of women in the U.S. by educational attainment:
Yes, that means that between 1990 and 2008, the life expectancy of women with less than a high school diploma (noted as <12) declined from over 78 years to just over 73, while it has increased for all other education cohorts.
It's interesting to note that the least-educated women used to have a greater life expectancy than the high school diploma group, and that the some-college group used to do better than the college-or-more group. And that the life expectancies of all four groups used to be generally more similar. Now they have diverged, just like income in the same time period.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Dying Five Years Earlier
Posted at 4:15 PM
Categories: How Do They Sleep at Night?
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I wonder if rates of smoking within these groups has changed.
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