A new study finds that as the jobless rate rises, so do drug overdoses.

The wealth gap is also a happiness gap.

In the U.S., well-being tends to be highest in a person's earliest and latest years. But elsewhere, new research shows, quality of life follows a very different pattern.

Access to insurance isn’t erasing race- and class-based health disparities.

Even as longevity increases across the rich world, uneducated white Americans are living sicker and dying earlier. Two economists speculate on the reasons why.

Two Princeton economists elaborate on their work exploring rising mortality rates among certain demographics.

Analyzing the number of academic citations a researcher garners is a way of crowdsourcing a list of frontrunners.

A new report finds that rates have risen in almost every state since 1999.

A new study explains why economic distress has led to mortality-rate spike for white, middle-age Americans without a college degree.