mortality and to explore implications for the welfare consequences of recessions. We estimate that an increase in the … unemployment rate of the magnitude of the Great Recession reduces the average, annual age-adjusted mortality rate by 2.3 percent …, with effects persisting for at least 10 years. Mortality reductions appear across causes of death and are concentrated in …

privately insured patients. We examine how hospitals responded to the sharp reductions in their endowments caused by the 2008 … stock market collapse. We find that the average hospital did not engage in cost-shifting, but average hospitals that likely …

This paper examines the depth and duration of the slump that invariably follows severe financial crises, which tend to … average over four years. Output falls an average of over 9 percent, although the duration of the downturn is considerably …

in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly … increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates … 0.4 percent increase in mortality for the elderly and a 0.06 percent increase in mortality for the very young. We find …

Regulatory entry barriers to hospital service markets, namely Certificate of Need (CON) regulations, are enforced in … impacts of CON on hospital volumes, demand responses to actual hospital entry into local hospital markets are not well … hospital entry by studying the cardiac revascularization markets in Pennsylvania, a state in which dynamic market entry …

are mainly observed in children born to mothers with low socioeconomic status, suggesting that credit constraints may be a … significant factor in the impact of economic crises on birth outcomes in Turkey. Our study also demonstrates that mothers residing … fertility, abortion, and neonatal mortality are more common during an economic downturn, and play a significant role in …