Seminar "Why are there more losses in life expectancy for women in covid years in Russia than for men?"

On April 14, at the seminar "Modern Demography", representatives of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Doctor of Economics Irina E. Kalabikhina and Mikhail Maksimov, a master's student, talked about the relationship between women's life expectancy loss during the pandemic years and various demographic and social determinants.

As variables for determining the excess mortality of men and women, the authors chose such social determinants as the gender employment and wage gap and the distribution of the daily time fund by gender. There is also segregation in the labor market (professions in the contact service sector, the risk of contacts) and a lower level of digitalization. The demographic determinant was the increase in life expectancy in 2007-2019.

Thus, the authors tried to explain why the loss in life expectancy of women in covid years is greater than that of men. A promising area of research is why the mortality rate in women has returned to the pre-covid levels in 2022, but not in men.