We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico … in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly … increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates …

utilize this natural experiment to estimate the effect of coal plant exposure on mortality and house values. Using a …

detailed and accurate picture of mortality patterns among people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. Our analyses center on … comparison groups, are linked to Social Security Administration data on all-cause mortality from 2010-2022 to estimate the ….5 times the mortality risk of those who are housed, accounting for differences in demographic characteristics and geography …

We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in … patterns of mortality decline. Patterns of income inequality were similar in both countries, but adult and elderly mortality … rates declined most rapidly during the period when inequality increased. Changes in the rate of mortality decline in the US …

deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of income inequality on the rate of decline of mortality over time, on … geographical pattens of mortality, and on individual-level mortality. Much of the literature needs to be treated skeptically, if …

rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 …

I present a model of mortality and income that integrates the 'gradient,' the negative relationship between income and … mortality, with the Wilkinson hypothesis, that income inequality poses a risk to health. Individual health is negatively … reference groups, which may be as large as whole populations, mortality declines with income, but at a decreasing rate; the …

cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There … is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been …