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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

There was a time, up until approximately 1980, when the US had a similar life expectancy to other high-income nations,1 but our fall from that place has been rapid, and we now rank 46th in the world.2...

New Boston University study tracks America’s avoidable “excess deaths” and pinpoints major causes

This cross-sectional study examines excess mortality in the US compared with other high-income countries from 1999 to 2022 and investigates causes of death accounting for the disparity.

A new study says the early U.S. COVID-19 death toll is much higher than official counts, and that there were disparities in which deaths were missing from those tallies.

A machine learning approach suggests that COVID-19 deaths were undercounted unevenly across sociodemographic groups in 2020–2021.

This study aims to estimate the number of excess deaths attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires using an interrupted time series design.

Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.

We likely undercounted, not overcounted COVID deaths

America is not a good place to be an early adult.

This study aims to estimate the number of excess deaths attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires using an interrupted time series design.

This study aims to estimate the number of excess deaths attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires using an interrupted time series design.

Purpose To examine disparities in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan mortality by state and sex from 1999 to 2019. Methods We calculate age-standardized mortality rates for nonmetropolitan and metro...

About 525,000 more deaths occurred among US adults in 2023 than would be expected had pre-2010 mortality trends continued. More than 90 percent of these deaths occurred among individuals without a bac...

This cross-sectional study examines trends in US mortality rates by sex and educational attainment before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

There were over 1.5 million “missing Americans” in 2022 and 2023—deaths that would have been averted if US mortality rates matched those of peer countries. Excess US deaths have been increasing for de...

This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

This cross-sectional study examines trends in mortality rates among adults aged 25 to 44 years across the pre–COVID-19 pandemic, pandemic, and postpandemic periods.

This cross-sectional study examines trends in mortality rates among adults aged 25 to 44 years across the pre–COVID-19 pandemic, pandemic, and postpandemic periods.

We are delighted to announce that we are accepting applications to participate in MELODEM's Annual In-Person Meeting which will be held in St. James Hotel in Red Wing, MN from Monday, June 23rd to Fri...

This report presents initial findings from a project investigating the direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 in the post-acute phase of the pandemic.

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