We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using … Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals. We consider baselines from 1984 to 1993 and investigate mortality … up to ten years from the baseline. We show that poor local labor market conditions are associated with higher mortality …

We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using … Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals. We consider baselines from 1984 to 1993 and investigate mortality … up to ten years from the baseline. We show that poor local labor market conditions are associated with higher mortality …

county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … health status as well as state and industry fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are associated … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the …

county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … health status as well as state, industry and occupation fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are … associated with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. There is little to no such relationship for people with weaker labor …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a … deterioration of health. These effects are most pronounced for working-aged men and are dominated by transitions into the very …

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from …

state-level analyses of mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is …This paper considers the relationship between economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to … geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses, I update earlier …

child mortality reduction depends on the initial level of income. At a low income level, where parents choose zero or a very …

We estimate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We use Bayesian methods to … between 50% and 60% of health status can be attributed to familial or neighborhood characteristics. Taking the principal … than previous estimates of sibling correlations in health that rely on linear models, are more in-line with sibling …

Individuals’ socioeconomic status (SES) is positively correlated with their health status. While the existence of this … insights on the causal structure of the health-SES nexus. We introduce some methodological refinements and integrate … retrospective survey data on early childhood circumstances into this framework. We confirm that childhood health has lasting …