Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans
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Infectious disease earlier in life had a scarring effect on older age mortality among those reaching middle age around 1900, with the strongest negative effect on survival of having grown up in a large city. The effect of reduced early life and young adult infectious disease rates accounts for 13% of the 21 percentage point increase in survival rates among 50-64 year old males in the twentieth century. Reductions in mortality from infectious and other acute disease account for another 13% of the increase. JEL Classifications: J1, I1, N3
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تاریخ انتشار 2001