Tag: mortality
The increase in deaths in 2020 and 2021 far exceeds deaths attributed to COVID. One of my favorite conspiracy theorists suggested that the government was exaggerating the number of deaths due to COVID-19. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, COVID deaths for 2020 and 2021 totaled 842,000, and with Omicron the total has…
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…
