Fontenla, Matias; Gonzalez, Fidel; Quast, Troy - In: Applied Economics Letters 18 (2011) 3, pp. 207-212
This article studies the effect of the business cycle on the mortality rates of the major racial/ethnic groups in the USA. We use county-level data from 1999 to 2005 and employ a panel econometric approach that includes county- and year-fixed effects. We found that the mortality rates for whites...
