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 …

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 …

Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality … rates above age 50. Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on … behavioral or social factors. This paper presents evidence on the relative performance of the US health care system using death …

We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … current and age-25 obesity status observed in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-2006. Projections of … cancer. We find that both changes in smoking and in obesity are expected to have large effects on mortality. For males, the …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

This paper examines the relationship between extreme socioeconomic disadvantage and poor health by providing the first … detailed and accurate picture of mortality patterns among people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. Our analyses center on … comparison groups, are linked to Social Security Administration data on all-cause mortality from 2010-2022 to estimate the …

life while decreasing after middle age. To be able to reflect these trends in the OECD Strategic Public Health Planning for …