TY - JOUR T1 - American HALE at midlife: An analysis based on HRS JF - Journal of Human Capital Y1 - 2022 A1 - Kim, Jihye A1 - Lahiri, Kajal KW - Education KW - health-adjusted life expectancy KW - race AB - The role of education and race in explaining disparities in health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) for Americans in the age group 45-64 is examined. We compute severity-weighted prevalence of diseases with comorbidity adjustments, and map the information onto 21 disabling conditions from Health and Retirement Study (HRS) over 2000-2016. The approach allows us to evaluate the importance of major disease and risk factors that explain the dynamics of life expectancy and HALE in recent years, and to find that Americans have been experiencing higher prevalence of various diseases and risk factors long before the recent decline in life expectancy in 2014. VL - 16 IS - 1 ER -