Reading path
Money and the institutions that follow the map
4 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.
- 1College access, price and earnings
Chapter 3.2 in Part III, The climb
A decade after entry, the median former student who received federal aid earned $28,330 at the median for-profit college and $42,014 at the median public college, and the average resident of a county in the most deprived tenth lives 29.3 miles from the nearest four-year college, against 6.1 miles in the least deprived tenth.
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- 2Home value, income and redlining
Chapter 4.1 in Part IV, Home and money
Life expectancy is 2.2 years higher for each doubling of a ZIP code area's median home value, and tracts graded A on the 1930s HOLC maps have a life expectancy of 80.9 years against 76.8 years in tracts graded D, for deaths in 2010 to 2015.
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- 3Health behaviors and the supply of care
Chapter 5.1 in Part V, Health and the body
In the most deprived tenth of census tracts, the share of adults who saw a dentist in the past year was 24.4 points lower than in the least deprived tenth, and the share who had a routine checkup was 3.6 points higher.
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- 4Disability, retirement and Medicare
Chapter 8.1 in Part VIII, Old age
Adult disability rises from 23.3% to 42.9% across tenths of tracts by deprivation and the disabled-worker share of Social Security beneficiaries from 7.2% to 16.8% across fifths of ZIP codes, while Medicare payments per fee-for-service beneficiary show no detectable difference between the least and most deprived fifths of counties and, weighted by residents, county values of expected age at death at 40 spread more for the poorest income quartile than for the richest.
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