Tapia Granados, Jose; Ionides, Edward - 2011
-income economies in general, mortality tends to evolve better in recessions than in expansions. It has been suggested that Sweden may … be an exception to this pattern. The present investigation shows, however, that in the period 1968–2003 mortality … oscillated procyclically in Sweden, deviating from its trend upward during expansions and downward during recessions. This …