Life expectancy falling for adults without a bachelor’s degree
B. Rose Huber, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
March 8, 2021 3 p.m.
Life expectancy in the United States dropped in 2020 due to COVID-19, but for American adults without a college degree, an increase in mortality occurred years earlier, according to a new study authored by Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton of Princeton University.
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Since 2010, people without a college degree have experienced an absolute rise in mortality, the researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Meanwhile, people with a college degree have experienced a decrease.
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B. Rose Huber, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Feb. 11, 2021 2:08 p.m.
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The recent killings of Black Americans have reignited calls for policing reform, including proposals to diversify police departments, which have historically been made up of primarily white, male officers. Yet, few studies have examined whether deploying minority and female officers actually changes police-civilian interactions or reduces instances of shootings and reported misconduct.
Jonathan Mummolo
Egan Jimenez, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
A study first debuted Feb. 7 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021 Annual Meeting harnesses newly collected data from the Chicago Police Department to show that deploying officers of different backgrounds does, in fact, produce large differences in how police treat civilians.
COVID-19 Reduced U.S. life expectancy, especially among Black and Latino populations
Jenesse Miller, University of Southern California; Edited by B. Rose Huber, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Jan. 15, 2021 9:53 a.m.
Princeton researchers have projected that, due to the pandemic deaths last year, life expectancy at birth for Americans will shorten by more than one year. That is the largest single-year decline in life expectancy in at least 40 years and is the lowest life expectancy estimated since 2003.
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Egan Jimenez, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
The researchers project that, due to the pandemic deaths last year, life expectancy at birth for Americans will shorten by 1.13 years to 77.48 years, according to their study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.