Anne Case

Anne Case is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She has written extensively on the issue of health over the course of one’s life, and has been awarded many prizes for her work on the links between economic status and health in childhood, and on midlife morbidity and mortality. A research paper she and Angus Deaton authored in 2015 revealed an alarming increase in midlife mortality among white non-Hispanic Americans due to deaths from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related causes. Based on this paper they wrote Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (2020), exploring patterns and contributing factors to the troubling trend. The publication served as a wake-up call for policy makers and catalyzed efforts to address social inequality in the USA.