Peer-Reviewed Study · Anne Case; Angus Deaton · 2017

Case and Deaton, 2017: death and illness rates among middle-aged white Americans kept rising through 2015. The "deaths of despair" research.

Building on our earlier research (Case and Deaton 2015), we find that mortality and morbidity among white non-Hispanic Americans in midlife since the turn of the century continued to climb through 2015.

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