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 …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income shocks on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamic. To unravel the impact of income on health from unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causality, we employ … gradient, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a deterioration of health. These effects are most pronounced …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics. To unravel the impact of income on health from unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causality, we employ … health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a deterioration of health. These …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income shocks on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics. To unravel the impact of income on health from unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causality, we employ … gradient, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a deterioration of health. These effects are most pronounced …

-reported health status and mortality from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. First, we document a large correlation between poor … macroeconomic conditions and mortality for working-aged men. This correlation is robust to controls for baseline health which … analysis provides no evidence that recessions are good for your health. …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …