Honoré, Bo E.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2021
mortality. It is natural to model mortality with more than one cause of death as a competing risks model. Such models are … death for either cause are fairly tight and we find that trends in cancer show much larger improvements than previously … estimated. For example, we find that time until death from cancer increased by about 10% for white males and 20% for white women …