In 2015, two economists introduced a social theory that would become one of the most famous of the era: deaths of despair. They speculated that rising rates of deaths among white Americans shared a ...

Since it was first introduced by the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton in 2015, the phrase “deaths of despair” has become a sort of spiritual skeleton key that promised to unlock the whole tragic ...

MOST ECONOMIC theories come and go with little fanfare. Every once in a while, however, one catches fire. In 2015 Anne Case and Angus Deaton, two Princeton University economists, published a landmark ...

There’s been a marked uptick in so-called deaths of despair—those involving drugs, alcohol or suicide—among millennials over the last decade, according to a new report released by public-health groups ...

Deaths of despair were first defined by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, two economists, in 2015. These were deaths due to suicide, overdoses, and alcoholic liver diseases disproportionately impacting ...

ERIE, Pennsylvania -- They died at the supermarket. A week before Easter, a trio of 30-somethings parked at an Erie, Pennsylvania, grocery, ingested heroin, and overdosed. For the next 12 to 18 hours, ...

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 9-8-8, or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741. For more than a decade, Americans ...

Deaths of despair have risen during the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest research suggests the increase has been dramatic. The pandemic and recession were associated with a 10% to 60% increase in ...

Across the United States, more people are dying from so-called "deaths of despair"—suicide, drug and alcohol poisoning, and alcoholic liver disease—than at any other point in recorded history, ...