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Measuring ancient inequality
Milanovic, Branko - 2007
"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521497
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Mortality, Education, Income, and Inequality among American Cohorts
Deaton, Angus - 1999
cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There … is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471654
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Inequality in Life and Death
Eichenbaum, Martin S.; Rebelo, Sérgio; Trabandt, Mathias - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We argue that the Covid epidemic disproportionately affected the economic well-being and health of poor people. To disentangle the forces that generated this outcome, we construct a model that is consistent with the heterogeneous impact of the Covid recession on low- and high-income people....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599353
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Predicting High-Risk Opioid Prescriptions Before they are Given
Hastings, Justine S. - 2019
Misuse of prescription opioids is a leading cause of premature death in the United States. We use new state government administrative data and machine learning methods to examine whether the risk of future opioid dependence, abuse, or poisoning can be predicted in advance of an initial opioid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479741
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Mortality and Socioeconomic Consequences of Prescription Opioids : Evidence from State Policies
Kaestner, Robert - 2019
, mortality and socioeconomic outcomes of adults. Our analysis highlights that most prescription opioid use is medically … significant changes in mortality or socioeconomic outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480081
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COVID-19 and Global Income Inequality
Deaton, Angus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita incomes by more in poor countries than in rich. This supposition is reasonable but false. Rich countries have experienced more deaths per head than have poor countries; their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482610
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Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality : Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs
Jayachandran, Seema - 2009
.S. mortality. For several often-fatal infectious diseases, sulfa drugs represented the first effective treatment. Using time … drugs led to a 25 to 40 percent decline in maternal mortality, 17 to 36 percent decline in pneumonia mortality, and 52 to 67 … percent decline in scarlet-fever mortality between 1937 and 1943. Altogether, they reduced mortality by 2 to 4 percent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463561
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Measuring Ancient Inequality
Milanovic, Branko - 2007
Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465096
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Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles
De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2006
People have heterogenous life expectancies: women live longer than men, rich people live longer than poor people, and healthy people live longer than sick people. People are also subject to heterogenous out-of-pocket medical expense risk. We construct a rich structural model of saving behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466109
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The Impact of Increased Utilization of HIV Drugs on Longevity and Medical Expenditures : An Assessment Based on Aggregate U.S. Time-Series Data
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2006
Estimates of mortality models imply that actual life expectancy of HIV/AIDS patients in 2001 was 13.4 years higher than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466259