Titre : | Subjective life expectancy in the US : correspondence to actuarial estimates by age, sex and race. (1999) |
Auteurs : | J. MIROWSKY |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 49, n° 7, 1999) |
Pagination : | 967-978 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Epidémiologie ; Evaluation ; Mortalité ; Homme ; Sexe ; Age ; Longévité ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 4IR0xzgv. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This study maps the relationship between subjective and actuarial life expectancy in a 1995 national sample of 2037 Americans of ages 18-95. Subjective estimates parallel age-specific actuarial ones based on current age-specific mortality rates. However males expect to live about 3 years longer than the actuarial estimate and blacks expect to live about 6 years longer. The apparent optimism remains after adjusting for socioeconomic status and the signs and symptoms of good health. Contrary to economists'rational-expectations hypothesis, young adults do not adjust their life expectancies upward to account for the favorable trends in mortality rates. |