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Anne Case and Angus Deaton Discuss the Depths of Despair. Center for the Economics of Human Development, 2020. https://cehd.uchicago.edu/?p=2796. Anne Case and Angus Deaton discuss the declining health outcomes for white Americans without a college degree.
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Harris, Nadine Burke. The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris details her experience practicing pediatric medicine in the Bayview Area of California, her realizations about childhood trauma and health, and how we can improve long-term health beginning in childhood.
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Lecture 25: Tough Nuts--Education and Health Insurance, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqm8T_FNnog. Part 25 Dr. Ian Shapiro’s Public Policy Lecture series published by Yale University.
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