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Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)

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Deaths of Despair - A Conversation With Angus Deaton

For most of the 20th century, people were living longer and longer. Until Deaths of Despair started to take off. What was causing the progress? Different at different times but nevertheless life expectancy kept going up. And so what you and Case discovered is that those trends begin to change around 1999, 2000. It's clear that that steady progress just sort of comes to a pretty shuddering halt.

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