This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and …

Mortality has declined continuously in the United States over the course of the 20th century, and at relatively … constant rates. But the constancy of mortality reductions masks significant heterogeneity by age, cause, and source. Using … historical data on death by age and cause, this paper describes the characteristics of mortality decline over the 20th century …

Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to … fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 years. At the same time, mortality rates … income per capita and mortality rates, a correlation that also exists within countries, where richer, better-educated people …

should be associated with more rapid mortality declines. Third, as a byproduct of targeting the most common conditions in the … population as a whole, induced innovation leads to growth in mortality disparities between minority and majority groups. Using … that induced innovation predicts about 20 percent of declines in infant mortality over this period. At the same time …

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …