This is the mental health corollary to what Case and Deaton found in their analyses of the death rates of the middle-aged: The increase was much larger among those without a college degree. In another paper, they found that average years of life expectancy between ages 25 and 75 decreased among those without a college degree and increased among those with one. By 2018, an American with a college degree could expect to live three years longer than someone without one. That was true for both Blacks and Whites: In recent years, mortality differences by race have narrowed, but differences by
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