one percentage point reduction in unemployment is predicted to raise AMI mortality by 1.3 percent, with a larger increase … the frail elderly. AMI mortality risk quickly rises when the economy strengthens and increases further if the favorable … health being a durable capital stock that is affected by flows of lifestyle behaviors and environmental conditions whose …

This study uses microdata from the 1972-1981 National Health Interview Surveys to examine how health status and medical … countercyclical variation in physical health that is especially pronounced for individuals of prime-working age, employed persons, and … males. The negative health effects of economic expansions accumulate over several years, are larger for acute than chronic …

changes in behaviors supply one mechanism for the procyclical variation in mortality and morbidity observed in recent research. …

Although health is conventionally believed to deteriorate during macroeconomic downturns, the empirical evidence …. Recent research that better controls for many sources of omitted variables bias instead suggests that mortality decreases and … physical health improves when the economy temporarily weakens. This partially reflects reductions in external sources of death …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …

We examine the first-order internal effects of unemployment on a range of health behaviors during the most recent … health behaviors, across the intensive and extensive margins, across the outcome distribution, and across gender. …

to electricity and health care seem not to affect mortality on extremely hot days. Residential AC appears to be both the … comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th century, this paper … makes two primary discoveries. First, we find that the mortality effect of an extremely hot day declined by about 80 …

-term health. We use detailed administrative data combined with survey information to create a data set with background information … children, but the effects on long-term health are overall negligible. However, we demonstrate that the schooling reform had …

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 …