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As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand fatalities in the United States, with starkly different incidence by race and ethnicity. Our study examines racial and ethnic disparities in confirmed COVID-19 cases across six...
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We examine gender and race differences in education-mortality trends among 25-64 year olds in the United States from … 2001-2018. The data indicate that the relationships are heterogeneous with larger mortality reductions for less educated … death associated with changes in overall mortality rates and identify key differences across race groups and education …
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show that variance in length of life is inversely related to the Gompertz slope of log mortality through age, and we reveal … and forecasting mortality. In particular, we examine how the assumption of proportional hazards fails to account …
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impact of federal assimilation policies on childhood mortality. We use children ever born and children surviving data … included in the censuses to estimate childhood mortality and [responses to] several questions unique to the Indian enumeration … allotment] to construct multivariate models of child mortality. The results suggest that mortality among American Indians in the …
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COVID-19 Pandemic struck in 2020 and hit the minority community much harder than whites in terms of mortality rates. Besides …
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the pandemic on all-cause mortality and on employment were concentrated in the same racial, ethnic, and education groups …, with non-White individuals and those without a college degree experiencing higher excess all-cause mortality as well as a … to the virus and to economic contractions - can explain 15 percent of the Hispanic-White difference in excess mortality …
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that, although initially, vaccines have little effect on new infections they strongly reduce the share of mortality out of … hypothesis that the ratio of current mortality to lagged infections is decreasing in the total number of vaccines per one hundred … conclusion from the statistical analysis is that, passed a certain threshold, vaccines moderate the share of mortality from a …
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This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
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I present a behavioral epidemiological model of the evolution of the COVID epidemic in the United States and the United Kingdom over the past 12 months. The model includes the introduction of a new, more contagious variant in the UK in early fall and the US in mid December. The model is...
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There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest for policy. In this paper we attempt to overcome...
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