Tag: mortality

Smiling woman eating green apple.

Abstract We show that earnings over the life cycle and health and productivity around retirement age vary with exposure to economic conditions in early life. Using state-year-level variation from the most severe and prolonged economic downturn in American history – the Great Depression – combined with restricted microdata from the Health and Retirement Study, w…

Abacus and a COVID mask

Historically, death rates suggest undercounting more likely. I was curious about whether we were overcounting or undercounting the number of deaths from COVID-19.  At an early news conference, Deborah Birx, MD – the response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force – indicated that the United States was more likely to attribute a deat…