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_aRuhm, Christopher J. _919877 |
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_aLiving and Dying in America: _bAn Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism / _cChristopher J. Ruhm. |
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_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2021. |
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_aNBER working paper series _vno. w28358 |
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| 500 | _aJanuary 2021. | ||
| 520 | 3 | _aThis essay reviews <i>Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism</i> (DEATHS), by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, a fascinating account of life and death in the United States during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. While primarily targeted towards a popular audience, the volume will be of interest to many economists and other social scientists. It postulates how public and private policies currently practiced in the United States, combined with and partly causing the declining economic and social circumstances of less educated, have led to increased mortality from drugs, suicide, and chronic liver disease. After describing the material in DEATHS in considerable detail, I suggest a variety of research questions that need to be answered to confirm or refute Case and Deaton's arguments and describe challenges to their key hypotheses. Among the latter are the ability of the postulated relationships to explain the sharply differing mortality trajectories of non-Hispanic whites, compared with other groups, and the timing of the observed mortality changes. Along the way, I raise doubts about the usefulness of the "deaths of despair" conceptualization, with its strong implications about causality. | |
| 530 | _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers | ||
| 538 | _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
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_aI12 - Health Behavior _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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_aI14 - Health and Inequality _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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_aI18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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_aJ11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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_aJ18 - Public Policy _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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| 710 | 2 | _aNational Bureau of Economic Research. | |
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_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w28358. |
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w28358 |
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_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w28358 |
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