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"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...
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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 …
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of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day mortality by 46% (4.5 percentage points) and that these …
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We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the … excess mortality relative to trend, compared to a less than 15 percent increase for Whites; we find losses in potential years …
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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....
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mortality for time-sensitive conditions: sepsis, stroke, asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute … Development (OSHPD) data, the impact of hospital closures on inpatient mortality is estimated. Outcomes of admissions in hospital … closures increase inpatient mortality by 0.46% points (an increase of 5.9%), whereas urban closures have no impact. Results …
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, cancer detection increased by 72 per 100,000 population among women and 33 per 100,000 population among men; cancer mortality …-universal access to Medicare at age 65 is associated with improvements in population-level cancer mortality and provides new evidence …
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Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of supply side factors,...
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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...
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codes fixed-effects regression models on the following AMI outcomes: time-specific mortality rates, age, and probability of … PTCA on the day of admission. We find a small increase in 30-day to 1-year mortality rates among patients in communities … time, we find a substantial increase in long-term mortality rates, a shift to younger ages (suggesting that the older ones …
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