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 …

-2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific mortality trends and racial gaps in life … the greatest impact on the racial life expectancy gap. The causes that contributed the most to Black mortality reductions … comparison with Europe suggests that mortality rates of both Black and White Americans could fall much further across all ages …

, mortality and socioeconomic outcomes of adults. Our analysis highlights that most prescription opioid use is medically … significant changes in mortality or socioeconomic outcomes …

This note seeks the socioeconomic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using county-level mortality …

response and mortality outcomes should be better than in 1918-20. We ask whether mortality from historical pandemics has any … predictive content for mortality in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. We find a strong persistence in public health performance in … the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Places that performed poorly in terms of mortality in 1918 were more likely to …