Life and Death in the American City: Men’s Life Expectancy in 25 Major American Cities From 1990 to 2015

Author:

Fenelon Andrew1,Boudreaux Michel2

Affiliation:

1. School of Public Policy and Department of Sociology and Criminology, Penn State University, 331 Pond Laboratory, University Park, PA 16801, USA

2. Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Maryland, 3310A School of Public Health Building, 4200 Valley Drive, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Abstract

Abstract The past several decades have witnessed growing geographic disparities in life expectancy within the United States, yet the mortality experience of U.S. cities has received little attention. We examine changes in men’s life expectancy at birth for the 25 largest U.S. cities from 1990 to 2015, using mortality data with city of residence identifiers. We reveal remarkable increases in life expectancy for several U.S. cities. Men’s life expectancy increased by 13.7 years in San Francisco and Washington, DC, and by 11.8 years in New York between 1990 and 2015, during which overall U.S. life expectancy increased by just 4.8 years. A significant fraction of gains in the top-performing cities relative to the U.S. average is explained by reductions in HIV/AIDS and homicide during the 1990s and 2000s. Although black men tended to see larger life expectancy gains than white men in most cities, changes in socioeconomic and racial population composition also contributed to these trends.

Publisher

Duke University Press

Subject

Demography

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