Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; Schmieder, Julia - 2019 - this version: January 28, 2019
Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the … despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women … continued to decrease in several other high-income countries including Germany. However, average mortality rates can disguise …