Working class white Americans are now dying in middle age at faster rates than minority groups | Brookings Institution
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Working class white Americans are now dying in middle age at faster rates than minority groups
Alison Burke
Thursday, March 23, 2017
In 2015, Princeton Professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton made global headlines after documenting a shocking rise in the proportion of white non-Hispanic Americans dying in middle age.
This year, as part of the Spring 2017 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Professors Case and Deaton are following up on that research to further investigate the rise and its causes, examining midlife mortality rates of white non-Hispanics in the U.S. by geography, education, birth cohort, and more. You can read the full paper here.