Baby Boomers Might Be Fragile, Economist Warns
May 30, 2025 by Allison Bell
Americans born after 1947 might be sicker, more likely to die and less affluent than comparable Americans born earlier were.
Nicholas Reynolds, a researcher at the University of Essex, makes the case for a broad decline in U.S. human capital in a paper published, behind a paywall, in the journal American Economic Review: Insights.
Reynolds started with U.S. government data files, such as Census Bureau data, then used math to make recent changes more clear by subtracting out long-term economic trends.
Originally Posted at Think Advisor on May 29, 2025 by Allison Bell.
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