Ricerc@Sapienza

The evolution of lifespan disparity is gaining a central role in mortality
literature. From the beginning of the new millennium, its evolution has led scholars to
give more emphasis to longevity and its relationship with causes-of-death evolution.
Following this line of research, we propose a novel model aiming to provide the
causes-of-death mortality surface, exploiting the relationship between mortality rates
by cause-of-death and lifespan variability. Taking advantage of this relationship, and
using data from Human Causes of Death Mortality Data Base, our model is able to
reconstruct the mortality surface by causes, using a single value of lifespan inequality
as input.