Anne Case

Oct 11, 2023 | brookings.edu | Anne Case |Janice Eberly |Carol Graham |Jón Steinsson

In previous work, Anne Case and Angus Deaton of Princeton described a disturbing trend, the now-widely recognized rise in “deaths of despair” – suicides, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related liver disease – since the mid-1990s. For a time, this phenomenon was hidden in overall mortality figures because of improvements in treating heart disease, but that progress stalled around 2010 for those without a bachelor’s degree.

Oct 11, 2023 | sltrib.com | Anne Case |Angus Deaton

By many measures, the U.S. economy is thriving: Unemployment stands close to the 50-year low set in April, the fraction of people aged 25 to 54 in work is at a two-decade high, gross domestic product is growing rapidly, inflation is falling, and the S & P 500 is a third higher than it was before the pandemic. While encouraging, economic statistics like these offer an incomplete picture of the state of the country.

Oct 3, 2023 | nytimes.com | Anne Case |Angus Deaton

Anne Case and By many measures, the U.S. economy is thriving: Unemployment stands close to the 50-year low set in April, the fraction of people age 25 to 54 in work is at a two-decade high, gross domestic product is growing rapidly, inflation is falling, and the S&P 500 is a third higher than it was before the Covid pandemic. While encouraging, economic statistics like these offer an incomplete picture of the state of the country.

Aug 8, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Anne Case |Angus Deaton |Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich

Angus Deaton. Princeton Univ, $24.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-691-24762-5Nobel Prize–winning British economist Deaton (The Great Escape) lambastes American economic injustice in these feisty missives.