Accounting for the Widening Mortality Gap Between Adult Americans with and without a BA
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JEL classification:
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
- J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2023-06-19 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2023-06-19 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2023-06-19 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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