Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations and Longevity Risk-Adjusted Age: Learning the Resilience of a Country to a Health Shock
Recent studies have attempted to measure differences in lifestyle quality across the world. This paper contributes to this strand of literature by extending the indicator introduced in Milevsky (2020), i.e., “longevity-risk-adjusted global age” (LRaG age), to deal with the new short-term mortality f...
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| description | Recent studies have attempted to measure differences in lifestyle quality across the world. This paper contributes to this strand of literature by extending the indicator introduced in Milevsky (2020), i.e., “longevity-risk-adjusted global age” (LRaG age), to deal with the new short-term mortality fluctuation data series freely available from the Human Mortality Database. The new weekly data on mortality allow measuring weekly biological age. The weekly differences between biological and chronological ages across countries were used to assess country resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of excess mortality and health expenditure. Countries with a biological age lower than the chronological age had a lower excess mortality in 2020–2021 and a lower health expenditure, thus indicating some resilience to the shock of COVID-19. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fed8e4cde2c044bb9b9603cb5e5f27512023-12-01T01:21:47ZengMDPI AGComputation2079-31972022-03-011044710.3390/computation10040047Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations and Longevity Risk-Adjusted Age: Learning the Resilience of a Country to a Health ShockGloria Polinesi0Maria Cristina Recchioni1Andrea Rimondi2Anton Sysoev3Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universitá Politecnica delle Marche, 60121 Ancona, ItalyDepartment of Economics and Social Sciences, Universitá Politecnica delle Marche, 60121 Ancona, ItalyDepartment of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UKDepartment of Applied Mathematics, Lipetsk State Technical University, 398055 Lipetsk, RussiaRecent studies have attempted to measure differences in lifestyle quality across the world. This paper contributes to this strand of literature by extending the indicator introduced in Milevsky (2020), i.e., “longevity-risk-adjusted global age” (LRaG age), to deal with the new short-term mortality fluctuation data series freely available from the Human Mortality Database. The new weekly data on mortality allow measuring weekly biological age. The weekly differences between biological and chronological ages across countries were used to assess country resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of excess mortality and health expenditure. Countries with a biological age lower than the chronological age had a lower excess mortality in 2020–2021 and a lower health expenditure, thus indicating some resilience to the shock of COVID-19.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/10/4/47longevity riskGompertz–Makeham mortalitybiological ageshort-term mortality |
| spellingShingle | Gloria Polinesi Maria Cristina Recchioni Andrea Rimondi Anton Sysoev Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations and Longevity Risk-Adjusted Age: Learning the Resilience of a Country to a Health Shock Computation longevity risk Gompertz–Makeham mortality biological age short-term mortality |
| title | Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations and Longevity Risk-Adjusted Age: Learning the Resilience of a Country to a Health Shock |
| title_full | Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations and Longevity Risk-Adjusted Age: Learning the Resilience of a Country to a Health Shock |
| title_fullStr | Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations and Longevity Risk-Adjusted Age: Learning the Resilience of a Country to a Health Shock |
| title_full_unstemmed | Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations and Longevity Risk-Adjusted Age: Learning the Resilience of a Country to a Health Shock |
| title_short | Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations and Longevity Risk-Adjusted Age: Learning the Resilience of a Country to a Health Shock |
| title_sort | short term mortality fluctuations and longevity risk adjusted age learning the resilience of a country to a health shock |
| topic | longevity risk Gompertz–Makeham mortality biological age short-term mortality |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/10/4/47 |
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