that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven …

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 … than good due to the economic contraction, despite a large literature that finds mortality rates decline during recessions …

that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business … death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health … indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We nonparametrically compare those born in …

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among …

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