Data and Code for: Mortality Change Among Less Educated Americans
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College; Charlie Rafkin, mit; Sam Asher, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Version: View help for Version V1
| Name | File Type | Size | Last Modified |
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| data | 08/31/2021 10:17:AM | ||
| nra-paper-mortality | 04/20/2022 07:41:PM |
Project Citation:
Novosad, Paul, Rafkin, Charlie, and Asher, Sam. Data and Code for: Mortality Change Among Less Educated Americans. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-09-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E147961V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Data and replication packet for "Mortality Change Among Less Educated Americans."
Measurements of mortality change among less educated Americans can be biased because the least educated groups (e.g. dropouts) become smaller and more negatively selected over time. We show that mortality changes at constant education percentiles can be bounded with minimal assumptions. Middle-age mortality increases among non-Hispanic whites from 1992–2018 are driven almost entirely by the bottom 10% of the education distribution. Drivers of mortality change differ substantially across groups. Deaths of despair explain most of the mortality change among young non-Hispanic whites, but less among older whites and non-Hispanic blacks. Our bounds are applicable in many other contexts.
The easiest way to get/use these data is to visit the git repo at https://github.com/devdatalab/paper-nra-mortality/, but we are hosting an identical data and replication packet here for archival instructions. The readme in the git repo (same as in the code packet here) provides the clearest explanation on how to use these data and is more likely to stay up to date.
paper-nra-mortality.zip is a package with the replication repo (everything except data)
nra-mortality-small.zip is the data packet.
Measurements of mortality change among less educated Americans can be biased because the least educated groups (e.g. dropouts) become smaller and more negatively selected over time. We show that mortality changes at constant education percentiles can be bounded with minimal assumptions. Middle-age mortality increases among non-Hispanic whites from 1992–2018 are driven almost entirely by the bottom 10% of the education distribution. Drivers of mortality change differ substantially across groups. Deaths of despair explain most of the mortality change among young non-Hispanic whites, but less among older whites and non-Hispanic blacks. Our bounds are applicable in many other contexts.
The easiest way to get/use these data is to visit the git repo at https://github.com/devdatalab/paper-nra-mortality/, but we are hosting an identical data and replication packet here for archival instructions. The readme in the git repo (same as in the code packet here) provides the clearest explanation on how to use these data and is more likely to stay up to date.
paper-nra-mortality.zip is a package with the replication repo (everything except data)
nra-mortality-small.zip is the data packet.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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mortality;
usa;
education
JEL Classification:
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C14 Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
I14 Health and Inequality
I25 Education and Economic Development
C14 Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
I14 Health and Inequality
I25 Education and Economic Development
Geographic Coverage:
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USA
Time Period(s):
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1992 – 2018
Universe:
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Aggregate counts of deaths by race, sex, education, age, cause, and year
Data Type(s):
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administrative records data
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