O'Brien, Rourke; Bair, Elizabeth F.; Venkataramani, … - In: Demography 59 (2022) 2, pp. 607-628
, including rising mortality due to “deaths of despair.” Increasing automation—the use of industrial robots to perform tasks … examine the impact of automation on age- and sex-specific mortality. Using exogenous variation in automation to support causal … inference, we find that increases in automation over the period 1993–2007 led to substantive increases in all-cause mortality …