Mortality and the business cycle : Evidence from individual and aggregated data
van den Berg, Gerard J. ; Gerdtham, Ulf G. LU
; von Hinke, Stephanie
; Lindeboom, Maarten
; Lissdaniels, Johannes
LU
; Sundquist, Jan
LU
and Sundquist, Kristina
LU
(2017)
In Journal of Health Economics
56.
p.61-70
- 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 J.
; Gerdtham, Ulf G.
LU
; von Hinke, Stephanie
; Lindeboom, Maarten
; Lissdaniels, Johannes
LU
; Sundquist, Jan
LU
and Sundquist, Kristina
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-12-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Aggregation, Death, Health, Income, Recession, Unemployment
- in
- Journal of Health Economics
- volume
- 56
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- pmid:28968530
- scopus:85030102476
- ISSN
- 0167-6296
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005
- language
- English
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- yes
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- ce301ff8-17bb-4a1d-bb30-6cd96cdc2cbe
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