{"id":1260,"date":"2025-10-15T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:59:43","slug":"from-lifespan-inequality-to-lifespan-inequity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/2025\/10\/15\/from-lifespan-inequality-to-lifespan-inequity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;From Lifespan Inequality to Lifespan Inequity&#8221; published in Social Indicators Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New paper in <em>Social Indicators Research<\/em> with Magdalena Muszy\u0144ska-Spielauer, Alyson van Raalte, and Yukiko Asada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this paper, we develop a novel approach for moving from lifespan inequality to lifespan inequity. Drawing on the capability approach, we argue that human flourishing entails the capability of living a life of \u201cnormal length,\u201d and adapt tools from poverty measurement to quantify shortfalls from that norm. We define a threshold, the Minimally Adequate Length of Life (MALL), based on the modal age at death, and measure premature mortality (deaths below MALL) in terms of its incidence, depth, and inequality. Applying this framework to the United States from 1933\u20132021 and comparing it with other high-income countries, we find that while US lifespan inequity once declined faster than elsewhere, it began lagging in the 1980s and by the 2010s had the highest levels among its peers. The COVID-19 pandemic further deepened inequity by increasing the depth of premature mortality. Overall, our paper proposes a way to link demographic measures of lifespan variability with theories of justice and fairness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full paper here <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11205-025-03711-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11205-025-03711-w<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New paper in Social Indicators Research with Magdalena Muszy\u0144ska-Spielauer, Alyson van Raalte, and Yukiko Asada In this paper, we develop a novel approach for moving from lifespan inequality to lifespan inequity. Drawing on the capability approach, we argue that human flourishing entails the capability of living a life of \u201cnormal length,\u201d and adapt tools from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/2025\/10\/15\/from-lifespan-inequality-to-lifespan-inequity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;From Lifespan Inequality to Lifespan Inequity&#8221; published in Social Indicators Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}