“A New Research Agenda for Social Inequalities in Mortality” published in PDR

The article outlines three promising research directions in the field of mortality inequalities:

1. The emergence of a “meritocracy” of longevity in low-mortality countries.
2. The interplay of nature, nurture, and chance in shaping variability in human lifespans.
3. The psychosocial consequences of mortality inequalities.

Figure 2: The shift from gender- to class-based mortality inequalities across low-mortality countries. Sources: Human Mortality Database; Permanyer et al. (2018); Sasson (2016); Sasson and Hayward (2019); van Raalte, Sasson, and Martikainen (2018).

The article will be coming out in the 50th anniversary special issue of Population and Development Review.