than good due to the economic contraction, despite a large literature that finds mortality rates decline during recessions … Australia, a country with universal health care. Using administrative time-series data on mortality that varies by state, age …Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter an emerging public health crisis due …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies … showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis … men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on …

to quarterly British data on chronic health conditions for those of working age over the period 2002-2016. We find strong … and robust counter-cyclical relationships for overall chronic health, and for five broad types of health conditions …. Chronic health conditions therefore increase in poor economic times. There is considerable spatial heterogeneity across local …

macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase … a 0.4 percent rise in total mortality and 0.4, 1.1, 1.8, 2.1 and 0.8 percent increases in deaths from cardiovascular … physical health. …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …

Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative … data on drug prescriptions to infer information about the health status of individuals and link it labor market outcomes …. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … for employment, we find that working an additional full year at old age decreases longevity. This mortality effect occurs …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …