We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using … Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals. We consider baselines from 1984 to 1993 and investigate mortality … up to ten years from the baseline. We show that poor local labor market conditions are associated with higher mortality …

We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using … Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals. We consider baselines from 1984 to 1993 and investigate mortality … up to ten years from the baseline. We show that poor local labor market conditions are associated with higher mortality …

county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … health status as well as state, industry and occupation fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are … associated with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. There is little to no such relationship for people with weaker labor …

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 …

mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels …This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses …

state-level analyses of mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is …This paper considers the relationship between economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to … geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses, I update earlier …

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 …