CInSt Research Seminar "Gender longevity gap and socioeconomic environment"
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Speakers: Pavel Derkachev (HSE Center for Institutional Studies, HSE Institute of Education), Igor Fedotenkov (HSE Center for Institutional Studies)
In all developed countries, women live longer than men. Differences in longevities are country-specific and change in time. In a cross-country analysis, we study the gender longevity gap dependence on various socio-economic indicators and test a number of contradicting theories. For example, there is a theory, which claims that higher women participation in labor market shall raise the gender longevity gap. At the same time, there are other theories, which claim the opposite. Our preliminary estimates, based on the OECD and EU data, are in line with the later theories. Also, our results confirm the findings of studies based on regional data that higher economic growth and lower income inequality reduce the gender longevity gap. Finally, we test a hypothesis that negative ecological factors increase the gender longevity gap and confirm it.
Place: 4 Slavyanskaya Square, building 2, room 101-102.
Date and time: June 29, 2017, at 4 PM
Language: English
Free entrance.
If you don't have an HSE ID, please send your name and surname to lovakov@hse.ru before 13:00, June 29.
Date
29 June
16:00
Address
Славянская пл., д. 4, стр. 2, комната 101-102