title: Gender differentials in poverty-mortality well-being.
abstract: "This paper explores the application of a life table approach to the analysis of poverty [in the United States].  After reviewing trends in gender differentials in poverty and mortality, we investigate an indicator of poverty-mortality well-being.  The rationale for this approach is that to some extent poverty and mortality are causally interrelated phenomena which are both fundamental to well-being.  The empirical results indicate that females are expected to live more years in poverty than are males, but females are expected to live more years in nonpoverty as well. Although the gender differential in poverty rates has increased to the disadvantage of females, and although most of the greater poverty of females cannot be attributed to their greater longevity, the gender differential in poverty-mortality well-being has nonetheless not deteriorated to the disadvantage of women in recent decades."
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authors.lastname: Sakamoto
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D015993:Life Tables; D009026:Mortality; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011203:Poverty; D012106:Research; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Differential Mortality; Economic Factors; Life Table Method; Mortality; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Poverty; Research Methodology; Sex Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; United States