Measuring Recent Apparent Declines in Longevity: The Role of Increasing Educational Attainment

John Bound, Arline T. Geronimus, Javier M. Rodriguez and Timothy A. Waidmann

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Abstract: Independent researchers have reported an alarming decline in life expectancy after 1990 among US non-Hispanic whites with less than a high school education.

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