state level data for the 1972-1991 time period. Health is proxied by total and age- specific mortality rates, as well as by …This study examines the relationship between economic conditions and health. Fixed-effect models are estimated using … 10 particular causes of death. Total mortality and nine of the ten sources of fatalities exhibit a procyclical variation …

. The tentative conclusion is that economic crises affect mortality rates (and presumably other measures of health) in the …-2013 to examine whether the mortality effects of economic crises differ in kind from those of the more typical fluctuations … same way as less severe downturns: namely, they lead to improvements in physical health. The effects of severe national …

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 …