And the gap is widening
record over the past 20 years has been impressive, outperforming other rich countries. Less impressive is its measure of wellness, or how long people live. A study by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, two economists at Princeton University, is a case in point. Their latest research shows that in America there is a huge and growing gap between the life expectancy of people with degrees and those without.
The study builds on something that has become all too apparent as the effects of covid-19 have filtered through into life-expectancy estimates . That is, even as it gets richer, America has been falling behind other industrialised countries in terms of life expectancy: a generation ago, America was in the middle of the pack; now it is behind most other rich-world countries. Even before covid-19, Americans’ chance of dying younger was increasing, and so life expectancy was gently shrinking.
This latest study shows that the effects of that are far from equally distributed. “Americans with a college degree, if they were a separate country, would be one of the best performers, just below Japan,” the authors report. That is perhaps an unfair comparison—were other countries’ populations split in the same way, presumably their graduates would also live longer, since graduates are richer and more able to insulate themselves from danger than non-graduates everywhere.
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