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The Increasing Mortality Gap by Education


The Increasing Mortality Gap by Education

Over the last two decades, a mortality gap has opened up across education levels. For those born after 1950, each additional level of ...

The Increasing Mortality Gap by Education: Differences by Race and ...

In 2016, for example, men and women with high school degrees had mortality rates 16 percent and 14 percent lower, respectively, than those without degrees.

Mortality gap between those with and without a college degree is ...

College-educated Americans have been faring better than those without a degree in just about every marker of mortality. Deaths from cancer and ...

The higher the level of education, the lower the risk of dying

18 years of education reduces the risk of death by 34 per cent and is comparable to eating a healthy diet. Not going to school is as bad for ...

The Effect of Educational Attainment on Adult Mortality in the United ...

An even wider disparity is evident for the same categories of white men: Men with less than a high school degree have a mortality rate more than four times ...

Accounting for the widening mortality gap between American adults ...

They found that life expectancy for the college educated in 2021 was eight-and-a-half years longer than for the two-thirds of American adults ...

Changes in Mortality and Life expectancy by Education, 1981−2000

Despite increased attention and substantial dollars directed to groups with low socioeconomic status, within race and sex groups, the educational gap in life ...

Life expectancy gap in America widens depending on college ...

1992 to 2010: Mortality fell for both groups with greater improvements for more educated people. · 2010 to 2019: Mortality fell for people with a ...

The Increasing Mortality Gap by Education: Differences by Race and ...

For those born after 1950, each additional level of educational attainment is associated with at least an 18 percent reduction in mortality rate ...

The Persistent Mortality Advantage of a College Degree | NBER

Adults who live in more educated communities have lower mortality rates. In 2010, every 10 percentage point increase in an areas share of adults with a college ...

Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review ...

This work provides compelling evidence of the importance of education in improving life expectancy and supports calls for increased investment ...

Education, health-based selection, and the widening mortality gap ...

One explanation points to increasing educational attainment changing the type of people with and without a degree. If pre-existing health in the two education ...

Low educational attainment is associated with higher all-cause and ...

Lower educational attainment is independently associated with increased risk of all-cause and CVD mortality in both the total and ASCVD populations.

The "mortality gap" is growing: College-educated Americans live ...

Two Princeton University economists, one a Nobel Prize winner, released a study on Monday that highlighted the important way education level ...

Education: It Matters More to Health than Ever Before

Between 1990 and 2008, the life expectancy gap between the most and least educated Americans grew from 13 to 14 years among males and from 8 to 10 years among ...

The Mortality Gap | Richmond Fed

Educational attainment for the population as a whole increased significantly over the course of the 20th century. As a result, cohorts of people who have not ...

The Effect of Educational Attainment on Adult Mortality in the U.S.

Despite the potential to reduce educational differences in mortality, it may be overly simplistic to assume that they are easily responsive to increased future ...

Explaining the Widening Education Gap in Mortality among U.S. ...

The reasons for the growth among white women are unclear. We investigated three explanations—social- psychological factors, economic circumstances, and health ...

Accounting for the Widening Mortality Gap between American Adults ...

As a result, the gap in mortality between the two education groups increased from 1992 to 2019. The eleven causes of death in Table 1 ...

Life expectancy in adulthood is falling for those without a BA degree ...

Selective mortality—that those with less education are more likely to die at any given age—will increase the average education within a birth ...