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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…