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DOI	10.1073/PNAS.2024777118
	Life expectancy in adulthood is falling for those without a BA degree, but as educational gaps have widened, racial gaps have narrowed
	Case A.; Deaton A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00278424
卷号	118 期号:11
英文摘要	A 4-y college degree is increasingly the key to good jobs and, ultimately, to good lives in an ever-more meritocratic and unequal society. The bachelor's degree (BA) is increasingly dividing Americans; the one-third with a BA or more live longer and more prosperous lives, while the two-thirds without face rising mortality and declining prospects. We construct a time series, from 1990 to 2018, of a summary of each year's mortality rates and expected years lived from 25 to 75 at the fixed mortality rates of that year. Our measure excludes those over 75 who have done relatively well over the last three decades and focuses on the years when deaths rose rapidly through drug overdoses, suicides, and alcoholic liver disease and when the decline in mortality from cardiovascular disease slowed and reversed. The BA/no-BA gap in our measure widened steadily from 1990 to 2018. Beyond 2010, as those with a BA continued to see increases in our period measure of expected life, those without saw declines. This is true for the population as a whole, for men and for women, and for Black and White people. In contrast to growing education gaps, gaps between Black and White people diminished but did not vanish. By 2018, intraracial college divides were larger than interracial divides conditional on college; by our measure, those with a college diploma are more alike one another irrespective of race than they are like those of the same race who do not have a BA. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Bachelor's degree; Educational divide; Life expectancy; Racial divide
语种	英语
scopus关键词	academic achievement; adult; adulthood; African American; aged; alcohol liver disease; Article; bachelor degree; cardiovascular disease; Caucasian; drug overdose; education; female; graduate; human; life expectancy; male; mortality rate; priority journal; race difference; sex ratio; suicide
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/181173
作者单位	School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States; Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States; Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Case A.,Deaton A.. Life expectancy in adulthood is falling for those without a BA degree, but as educational gaps have widened, racial gaps have narrowed[J],2021,118(11).
APA	Case A.,&Deaton A..(2021).Life expectancy in adulthood is falling for those without a BA degree, but as educational gaps have widened, racial gaps have narrowed.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(11).
MLA	Case A.,et al."Life expectancy in adulthood is falling for those without a BA degree, but as educational gaps have widened, racial gaps have narrowed".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.11(2021).