Reynolds, Nicholas (2024) The Broad Decline in Health and Human Capital of Americans Born after 1947. American Economic Review: Insights. (In Press)
Reynolds, Nicholas (2024) The Broad Decline in Health and Human Capital of Americans Born after 1947. American Economic Review: Insights. (In Press)
Reynolds, Nicholas (2024) The Broad Decline in Health and Human Capital of Americans Born after 1947. American Economic Review: Insights. (In Press)
Abstract
I present evidence of a cross-cohort decline in the health and human capital of Americans, beginning with those born after 1947 and continuing until those born in the mid-1960s. Education, men's wages, women's maternal health (proxied by their infants' birthweight), and mortality all exhibit trend breaks near the 1947 cohort, such that each outcome worsens for subsequent cohorts relative to prior trend. The decline is large enough to drive: i) educational declines in the 1960s, ii) increases in low birthweight in the 1980s, iii) mortality increases since 1999, and to contribute substantially to iv) wage stagnation since the 1970s.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | cohort; earnings; education; health; human capital; low birthweight; maternal health; mortality; wage stagnation |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2024 15:29 |
Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2024 15:31 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38970 |
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