Demography Roundup #8

White high school dropouts are seeing big declines in life expectancy + the latest data on births in China and a curious rise in graduation rates.

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#1: White high school dropouts are driving big declines in life expectancy among non-college Americans.

Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the Princeton economists known for their work on “deaths of despair,” released a new paper detailing a widening gap in death rates between Americans with and without a four-year college degree.

In 1992, the …