, depending on the extent of scarring and mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find frailer survivors. I find … mortality and morbidity and worse socioeconomic outcomes than non-POW and other POW controls whereas those older than 30 at …

geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …, state-level mortality has become increasingly correlated with state-level income; in 1992 income explained only 3 percent of …