Angus deaton

Figure 21. 

Log Wages and Labor Force Participation for White Non-Hispanic Men  

with Less Than a Bachelor’s Degree, for Birth Years 1940–88

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working class after its heyday in the early 1970s, and the pathologies that 

accompany this decline.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  We are grateful to our editor, Janice Eberly, 

and to our discussants, David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney, as well as to 

Jonathan Skinner and participants in the Spring 2017 Brookings Panel on Eco-

nomic Activity, and to the National Institute on Aging for funding through the 

National Bureau of Economic Research. We thank Alice Muehlhof for expert 

research assistance.

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