health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical …The question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of … spending increases than if life extension were accompanied by expanding morbidity. Using nearly 20 years of data from the …

health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical …The question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of … spending increases than if life extension were accompanied by expanding morbidity. Using nearly 20 years of data from the …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non … birth weight and preterm birth than those in the bottom ventile. However, unlike birth outcomes, infant mortality varies …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a …

in infant and maternal health. Infants and mothers at the top of the income distribution have worse birth and morbidity …. Racial disparities swamp these income disparities, with no racial convergence in health outcomes as income rises. A … comparison with Sweden shows that infant and maternal health is worse in California at virtually all income levels. …