Education and Income Gradients in Longevity: The Role of Policy

This paper is based on the lecture entitled “Public Policy and Population Health” given at the Canadian Economic Association Meetings of 2021. I am grateful to Sherry Glied for providing comments on an early draft. This first part of this paper draws heavily on an earlier piece I wrote with Galama and van Kipperluis (Galama et al. 2018). All errors are my own. I did not receive any funding for this research. I have no relevant and material financial relationships to disclose. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.