macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase … a 0.4 percent rise in total mortality and 0.4, 1.1, 1.8, 2.1 and 0.8 percent increases in deaths from cardiovascular … physical health. …

the people in later middle age (aged 45-65). The incidence of obesity is unrelated to the regional growth rate. All in all … economic slowdowns are good for health. In contrast, at least overweight increases during slumps. …

relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality, controlling for local area and time fixed effects. Consistent with … significant reductions in mortality. Models of mortality by source indicate that the negative relationship between unemployment … and mortality is strongest for deaths due to cardiovascular disease and accidents. A finding that mortality among the …

relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality, controlling for local area and time fixed effects. Consistent with … significant reductions in mortality. Models of mortality by source indicate that the negative relationship between unemployment … and mortality is strongest for deaths due to cardiovascular disease and accidents. A finding that mortality among the …

studies in the economics and public health literatures measuring the mortality effects of air pollution. …Prior research demonstrates that mortality rates increase during economic booms and decrease during economic busts, but … overall, cause-specific, and age-specific mortality rates with state-level measures of ambient concentrations of three types …

This study investigates the relationship between business cycle fluctuations and health in the Canadian context, given … that a procyclical relationship between mortality rates and unemployment rates has already been well established in the U … rates on Canadian age and gender specific mortality rates. Consistent with U.S. results, there is some evidence of a strong …

This paper first documents several important business cycle properties of health status and health expenditures in the … US. We find that health expenditures are pro-cyclical while health status is counter-cyclical. We then develop a … stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous health accumulation. The model has four distinct features: 1) Both …

This paper explores the connection between alcohol mortality, drinking behaviour and macroeconomic fluctuations in … alcohol mortality. However, the great slump of the early 1990s is an exception to this pattern. During that particular episode …, alcohol mortality did indeed decline, as there was an unprecedented collapse in economic activity. The results from the micro …