Mortality and the Business Cycle : Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data
(2017) In Working Papers- Abstract
- There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both individual and aggregated data on a sample of 20-64 year-old Swedish men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on the level of analysis: the sign and magnitude of the parameter estimates are similar at the individual level and the aggregate (county) level; both showing pro-cyclical mortality.
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- author
- van den Berg, Gerard ; Gerdtham, Ulf LU ; von Hinke, Stephanie ; Lindeboom, Maarten ; LISSDANIELS, JOHANNES LU ; Sundquist, Jan LU and Sundquist, Kristina LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Working paper/Preprint
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Mortality, Recessions, Business Cycle, Health, Unemployment, Income, E03, I10, I12
- in
- Working Papers
- issue
- 2017:5
- pages
- 26 pages
- publisher
- Department of Economics, Lund University
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- ae94de2f-a12a-414a-a463-c3cf22dcba8c
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- http://swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lunewp2017_005.htm
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- 2017-10-16 15:57:37
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