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 …

We examine whether economic downturns are beneficial to health outcomes of newborn infants in developed countries. For … this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … dying within 28 days of birth by 10-15%. Effects are larger in low socio-economic status households. Health improvements …

While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in …

It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American … counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this "healthy immigrant … the National Health Interview Survey, we find that the average female and male immigrants enter the U.S. with BMIs that …

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. …

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among …

Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … restricted to very particular causes of death, but is mostly driven by adult and old age mortality. We calculate that welfare … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …