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March 23, 2017
Case and Deaton Release "Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century"
Dramatic Rise in Middle-Age White Deaths Rates Most Acute Among Less Well-Educated Americans, Overtaking Minority Death Rates; “Deaths from Despair” Key Factor, New Case-Deaton Research for Brookings Finds Increased mortality, deteriorating health, and increased social dysfunction hitting both lesser-educated men and women; suicide, drug overdoses and alcohol-related liver deaths higher in each successive birth cohort Although death rates continue to improve in middle age among all education classes in most of the rich world, this is only true in the U.S. for middle-aged non-Hispanic whites with a college degree, as well as blacks and Hispanics at all…
