county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … health status as well as state and industry fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are associated … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the …

; mortality ; health ; aggregation … economic conditions pose health risks and illustrate an important contrast with studies based on aggregate data. -- recessions … county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a … deterioration of health. These effects are most pronounced for working-aged men and are dominated by transitions into the very …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …

than good due to the economic contraction, despite a large literature that finds mortality rates decline during recessions … Australia, a country with universal health care. Using administrative time-series data on mortality that varies by state, age …Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter an emerging public health crisis due …

showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis …There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies … men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on …

showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e …There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies … to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on the level of …

In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children's home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …