Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach
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- Janet Currie & Hannes Schwandt, 2016. "Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 30(2), pages 29-52, Spring.
- Janet Currie & Hannes Schwandt, 2016. "Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach," NBER Working Papers 22199, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Currie, Janet & Schwandt, Hannes, 2016. "Mortality inequality: the good news from a county-level approach," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 66524, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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Keywords
racial differences; inequality; mortality; smoking;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2016-05-14 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-HEA-2016-05-14 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2016-05-14 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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