Inequality in mortality in Spain

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• dc.contributor.author González, Libertad
• dc.contributor.author Rodríguez González, Ana
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-04-15T05:36:35Z
• dc.date.available 2025-04-15T05:36:35Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract We analyse the evolution of mortality rates in Spain by age and gender between 1990 and 2018. We compare municipalities, ranked by socio-economic status (SES) and grouped into bins of similar population size, to study changes not only in levels but also in inequality in mortality across the SES spectrum. We document large decreases in mortality rates throughout the period for all age groups, including children, even after 2000, and continuing after the Great Recession. These declines are stronger for boys and men, who had higher mortality rates to begin with. We find that inequality in mortality across municipalities was low among the young by 2018, while it was higher among adult men and older women. Inequality in fact increased over the period for older men. We explore the role of different causes of death and find that this increase in inequality is driven by stronger improvements in cancer-related mortality among men living in richer areas. These improvements are not found among women, given their increases in mortality due to lung cancer.
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• dc.identifier.citation González L, Rodríguez-González A. Inequality in mortality in Spain. Fiscal Studies. 2021;42(1):103-21. DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12262
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12262
• dc.identifier.issn 1475-5890
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70141
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof Fiscal Studies. 2021;42(1):103-21
• dc.rights © 2021 The Authors. Fiscal Studies published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. on behalf of Institute for Fiscal Studies. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Inequality
• dc.subject.keyword Mortality
• dc.subject.keyword Population health
• dc.title Inequality in mortality in Spain
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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