This study uses microdata from the 1972-1981 National Health Interview Surveys to examine how health status and medical … countercyclical variation in physical health that is especially pronounced for individuals of prime-working age, employed persons, and … males. The negative health effects of economic expansions accumulate over several years, are larger for acute than chronic …

Although health is conventionally believed to deteriorate during macroeconomic downturns, the empirical evidence …. Recent research that better controls for many sources of omitted variables bias instead suggests that mortality decreases and … physical health improves when the economy temporarily weakens. This partially reflects reductions in external sources of death …

changes in behaviors supply one mechanism for the procyclical variation in mortality and morbidity observed in recent research. …

one percentage point reduction in unemployment is predicted to raise AMI mortality by 1.3 percent, with a larger increase … the frail elderly. AMI mortality risk quickly rises when the economy strengthens and increases further if the favorable … health being a durable capital stock that is affected by flows of lifestyle behaviors and environmental conditions whose …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …

We examine the first-order internal effects of unemployment on a range of health behaviors during the most recent … health behaviors, across the intensive and extensive margins, across the outcome distribution, and across gender. …