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In Volume 74: Can Labor Market Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair? - William H. Dow, Anna Godøy, Christopher Lowenstein, Michael Reich: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper by Jordan Weiss UC Berkeley and colleagues: "A data-driven prospective study of #dementia among older adults in the United States" @eliputerman Aric A. Prather, PhD Dr. Erin B. Ware David Rehkopf PLOS One Health and Retirement Study bit.ly/3iUxoVr

#OxyContin is only 6% of oxycodone sales IQVIA US. Doesn’t even show up in overall Rx opioid graph. Great to have #Purdue settlement, but we need to talk about why there is so much pain Leo Beletsky Dan Ciccarone said: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.210… Source fda.gov/media/141914/d…

Delighted to announce release v2.0 of the public CenSoc administrative dataset CenSoc — linking the 1940 Census to Social Security death records. 1/

I spoke with Kimberly Adams about how recessions hit Black and Latinx workers hard and then recovery is slower, citing this paper by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and Nathan Seltzer: equitablegrowth.org/working-papers…

1/3 Always wanted to learn formal demography but never had the chance? Want to go beyond methods and study models? Attend this year's Berkeley Formal Demography Workshop, May 24-28 (virtual only). Application deadline: March 29.

🔥Hot off the press🔥: new pub in AJE w/ @SimonSOCY & @rykemasters is now available online. 'Trends in “Deaths of Despair” among Working Aged White and Black Americans, 1990-2017' academic.oup.com/aje/advance-ar…

New paper alert! “The Economic Complexity of US Metropolitan Areas”, in Regional Studies - @regionalstudies.bsky.social, joint with Benedikt Fritz rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Excited to announce the CenSoc public release of the WWII Army Enlistment datasets — linking WWII Army Enlistment records to Social Security death records and the 1940 Census. censoc.berkeley.edu/new-release-ce… 1/3

#STATOFTHEDAY Over 93,000 Americans died of a #drug #overdose in 2020 - up nearly 30% from 2019. go.usa.gov/x6huJ

Question: I agree that using 'low-skill' or 'unskilled' to define jobs at the bottom of the labor market is misleading and also faintly pejorative. What is the best alternative? Thread below on some options and difficulties I have with each:

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Death by Robots?? @RourkeOBrien & @atheendar examine how the rise of industrial robots increased all-cause mortality among those 45-54, esp by drug overdose & suicide. Safety net generosity mitigated effects, & right to work laws & low wages worsened them. ow.ly/NPPW50I3lmN

How can we measure the causes of the opioid epidemic? In our latest visual interview, Nathan Seltzer explains how he used a unique dataset to trace the links between the decline of manufacturing and drug-related deaths in the U.S. matrix.berkeley.edu/research-artic…