U-M study: Life and death during the Great Depression

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 16:14 in Psychology & Sociology

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---The Great Depression had a silver lining: During that hard time, U.S. life expectancy actually increased by 6.2 years, according to a University of Michigan study published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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