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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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Smoking, Selection, and Medical Care Expenditures
Darden, Michael; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation … value of the discounted sum of total expenditures is lower for smokers, mainly because of excess mortality. We find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172184
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Place-Based Drivers of Mortality : Evidence from Migration
Finkelstein, Amy - 2019
We estimate the effect of current location on elderly mortality by analyzing outcomes of movers in the Medicare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479924
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Recent Increases in Air Pollution : Evidence and Implications for Mortality
Clay, Karen - 2019
After declining by 24.2% from 2009 to 2016, annual average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the United States in counties with monitors increased by 5.5% between 2016 and 2018. Increases occurred in multiple census regions and in counties that were in and out of attainment with National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480326
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The Life Expectancy of Older Couples And Surviving Spouses
Compton, Janice - 2018
misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480662
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Medical Spending, Bequests, and Asset Dynamics Around the Time of Death
Jones, John Bailey - 2020
Using data from the Health and Retirement Survey, we document the changes in assets that occur before a person's death. Applying an event study approach, we find that during the 6 years preceding their deaths, the assets of single decedents decline, relative to those of similar single survivors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482059
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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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Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation
Shoven, John B. - 2008
remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine … to determine what eligibility ages would be today and in 2050 if adjustments for mortality improvement were taken into … approximately 0.15 years annually. Failure to adjust for mortality improvement implies the percent of the population eligible to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464411