As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand … modes; health care access; long-run opportunity, as measured by income mobility and incarceration rates; human mobility; and … underlying population health. We find that the proportions of black and Hispanic residents in a ZIP code are both positively and …

but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social … COVID-19 Pandemic struck in 2020 and hit the minority community much harder than whites in terms of mortality rates. Besides … Blacks, and 13.1 percent among Hispanics. As a result, while mean augmented wealth dipped only 1.2 percent among whites, it …

We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender and evaluate the extent to which … it can explain inequalities in other key economic outcomes using the Health and Retirement Study data set. Our main … measure of health is frailty, which is the fraction of one's possible health deficits and is related to biological age. We …

We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the … early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are … specific to COVID-19 and others that complicate attribution during most large health shocks. As in past epidemics, pre …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i …-remote workers. This gap is larger than the differential job losses for women, African Americans, Hispanics, or workers without … college degrees. Non-remote workers also experienced relatively worse respiratory health, which likely occurred because it was …

The racial and ethnic composition of home buyers varies across geographic locations. For example, Asians and Hispanics … Asians and Hispanics and the sample average. Within geographic areas, average loan differences across racial and ethnic …

example, by embracing the fact that Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites acquire retirement information from different sources …

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