3 papers
econ.GN2026
The U.S. Mortality Crisis as a Preston Curve Reversal
Ritikaa Khanna, Rourke O'Brien, Andrew Stokes +2
U.S. life expectancy stagnated and declined in the 2010s despite continued growth in real per capita income. We use Preston curves to characterize this pattern as a change in the r…
econ.GN2025
Political Power and Mortality: Heterogeneous Effects of the U.S. Voting Rights Act
Atheendar Venkataramani, Rourke O'Brien, Elizabeth Bair +1
We study the health consequences of redistributing political power through the 1975 extension of the Voting Rights Act, which eliminated barriers to voting for previously disenfran…
econ.EM2025
Prediction with Differential Covariate Classification: Illustrated by Covariate Classification in Medical Risk Assessment
Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Charles F. Manski, John Mullahy
A common practice in evidence-based decision-making uses estimates of conditional probabilities P(y|x) obtained from research studies to predict outcomes y on the basis of observed…