American Delusion: Life Expectancy and Welfare in the United States from an International Perspective
本文从国际比较视角，记录美国预期寿命的相对不佳表现，分析其年龄和死因分布，并估算福利影响，发现若美国能达到OECD平均水平，近期福利增长可提高19%-28%。
Recent increases in mortality are at the forefront of the public health debate in the United States. This paper takes a comparative international perspective and documents the poor relative performance of life expectancy in the United States. We characterize its age and cause of death profiles over time and estimate its welfare implications. We show that this poor performance is not recent, not restricted to very particular causes of death, but mostly driven by adults and older ages. We calculate that recent welfare gains could have been 19%–28% higher had the United States been able to reproduce the life expectancy performance of the average member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.