mortality and the business cycle identified in previous studies of the general U.S. population may vary by race …In this paper we study the effect of the business cycle on the mortality rate of the major racial groups in the U ….S. Using county-level data from 1999 to 2005, we find that the unemployment rate is negatively related to mortality for whites …

. We utilize mortality and employment data that are specific to a given city, year and race/ethnic group. The analysis …This paper employs U.S. metropolitan data to investigate the relationship between mortality rate and the business cycle … relationship to vary according to the level of economic activity in that metropolitan area. We find that while overall mortality is …

This paper uses the records of the Union Army to compare the older age mortality experience of the first black and … and had higher older age mortality rates …

the fundamental racism in U.S. culture and public policy. The virus does not care about personal wealth, religion, or race …

A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities … is income inequality in general. Conditional on the fraction black, neither city nor state mortality rates are correlated … with income inequality. Mortality rates are higher where the fraction black is higher, not only because of the mechanical …