“Presentation by Michael Simpson of CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division to the 2014 Fall Research Conference of the Association of Public Policy and Management. With Joyce Manchester, Vermont Legislative Joint Fiscal Office and formerly of CBO, and Geena Kim of CBO.”

“Differential mortality is the difference in life expectancy across socioeconomic groups.
■ CBO’s long-term model captures some increase in differential mortality over time.
■ CBO looks at differential mortality by quintiles of lifetime household earnings.
– The lowest quintile has lower and less rapidly growing life expectancy  than the highest quintile.”