Passing as White: Racial Identity and Old-Age Longevity
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JEL classification:
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- N0 - Economic History - - General
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2025-02-10 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-DEM-2025-02-10 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2025-02-10 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2025-02-10 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2025-02-10 (Labour Economics)
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