-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

state level data for the 1972-1991 time period. Health is proxied by total and age- specific mortality rates, as well as by …This study examines the relationship between economic conditions and health. Fixed-effect models are estimated using … 10 particular causes of death. Total mortality and nine of the ten sources of fatalities exhibit a procyclical variation …

Using data from multiple sources, over the 1976-2009 period, I show that total mortality has shifted over time from … change in the association between macroeconomic conditions and overall mortality primarily reflects trends in effects for … specific causes of death, rather than changes in the composition of total mortality across causes. Deaths due to cardiovascular …

mortality. Although past research has found that recessions reduce contemporaneous mortality, these short-term effects may … also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when … Medicare becomes available. All of these experiences could contribute to weaker long-term health outcomes. To examine these …

a range of health behaviors. Using longitudinal survey data that include pre- and post- reports from the same … individuals, we investigate the effects of the crisis on smoking, heavy drinking, dietary behaviors, sleep, and other health … behaviors and investigate changes in work hours, real income, wealth, and mental health as potential mediators. We also consider …

A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and … in individuals' own behavior contribute very little to pro-cyclical mortality. Looking across broad age and gender groups …, we find that own-group employment rates are not systematically related to own-group mortality. In addition, we find that …

There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we review what is known about … this link. We first document the facts about the relationship between education and health. The education 'gradient' is … found for both health behaviors and health status, though the former does not fully explain the latter. The effect of …

Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured … their intrinsic shortcomings; expenditures depend on preferences, health status, and prices, while outcomes are strongly … affected by health behavior and past illness. We suggest a new approach to measuring inequality: the use of quality …

consumption. We investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the substantial fluctuations in … the rate of increase in longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and … models using annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual …

rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 … between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth …