This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India andinvestigates likely … mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality atmost ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer … countries are scarce, and bothincome risk and mortality risk are greater in poor countries. This paper uses individual dataon …

We analyze the impact of short-run economic fluctuations on age-specific mortality usingBayesian time series … autoregressions of a latent mortality variable and of unemployment andGDP growth as main business cycle indicators. We find that young … adults noticeablydiffer from the rest of the population. They exhibit increased mortality in a recession,whereas most of the …

Using data for six OECD countries, this paper studies the effect of macroeconomic conditions on the mortality index kt … relationship between the state of the economy and mortality is found to change from procyclical to countercyclical in all six … variation in the mortality index. …