survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …

-2013 to examine whether the mortality effects of economic crises differ in kind from those of the more typical fluctuations …. The tentative conclusion is that economic crises affect mortality rates (and presumably other measures of health) in the … recessions in the United States, appear to have a beneficial effect on mortality that is roughly twice as strong as that …

mortality rates. We fit Vector-autoregressions for the overall US population and for groups identified based on gender and race …. We use our results to assess the long-run effects of the COVID-19 economic recession on mortality and life expectancy. We … shock, depending on race and gender, resulting in a significant increase in mortality rates and drop in life expectancy. We …

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 … 0.4 percent increase in mortality for the elderly and a 0.06 percent increase in mortality for the very young. We find …

that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest … the campaign's end explains a large share of the mortality crisis - implying that Russia's transition to capitalism and …

A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and … in individuals' own behavior contribute very little to pro-cyclical mortality. Looking across broad age and gender groups …, we find that own-group employment rates are not systematically related to own-group mortality. In addition, we find that …

mortality. Although past research has found that recessions reduce contemporaneous mortality, these short-term effects may … hypotheses, we use Vital Statistics mortality data between 1969 and 2008 to generate age-specific cohort survival probabilities …