Working Paper
Human capital externalities and adult mortality in the U.S.
Wheeler, Christopher H. (2007)
Human capital is now widely recognized to confer numerous benefits, including higher incomes, lower incidence of unemployment, and better health, to those who invest in it. Yet, recent evidence suggests that it also produces larger, social (external) benefits, such as greater aggregate income and productivity as well as lower rates of crime and political corruption. This paper considers whether human capital also delivers external benefits via reduced mortality. That is, after conditioning on various individual-specific characteristics including income and education, do we observe lower rates ...
Working Papers , Paper 2007-045

Journal Article
Mortality rates and the business cycle
Martinek, Christopher J.; Hernandez-Murillo, Ruben (2010)
Mortality rates no longer rise sharply in recessions.
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Working Paper
Inequality and Mortality: New Evidence from U.S. County Panel Data
Daly, Mary C.; Wilson, Daniel J. (2013-05-01)
A large body of past research, looking across countries, states, and metropolitan areas, has found positive and statistically significant associations between income inequality and mortality. By contrast, in recent years more robust statistical methods using larger and richer data sources have generally pointed to little or no relationship between inequality and mortality. This paper aims both to document how methodological shortcomings tend to positively bias this statistical association and to advance this literature by estimating the inequality-mortality relationship. We use a ...
Working Paper Series , Paper 2013-13

Journal Article
Interview: Angus Deaton
Price, David (2023-12)
When Angus Deaton was an undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, he found that the other students were better and more serious mathematicians than he was. He found his attention wandering from his math studies. He later recalled that his advisor, concerned by his lack of focus, finally told him to "take up what they clearly thought of as a last resort for ne'er-do-wells, a previously unconsidered option called economics."Roughly a half century later, in 2015, Deaton was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences — recognized, in the words of the committee, ...
Econ Focus , Volume 23 , Issue 4Q , Pages 18-22