B0697
Title: Measuring the poverty-free life expectancy: A temporal analysis on EU-SILC data
Authors: Federico Crescenzi - University of Tuscia (Italy) [presenting]
Andrea Nigri - University of Foggia (Italy)
Gianni Betti - University of Siena (Italy)
Abstract: The purpose is to estimate and analyze poverty-free life expectancy (PFLE) using the EU-SILC database. The poverty-free life expectancy measures the years individuals are supposed to live without poverty conditions. More precisely, it is the number of years of remaining poverty-free life that an individual belonging to a life table cohort would experience if cohort age-specific rates of mortality and poverty had prevailed throughout his lifetime. Monitoring changes in the PFLE is fundamental for understanding whether additional years of life are spent in good economic status and whether life expectancy is increasing faster than poverty. In this regard, decomposition methods provide a valuable tool to uncover how these differences vary across ages in different populations. These measures are estimated for some European countries using EU-SILC data, obtaining a time series from 2007 to 2019. It is also shown how this measure is sensible to the definition of poverty.
