This paper surveys the literature on the interaction between agriculture and the macroeconomy in both industrial and developing countries, identifying what the authors believe to represent its most significant contributions and shortcomings.Based on an economy-wide perspective, this paper begins...

We analyze the impact of short-run economic fluctuations on age-specific mortality using Bayesian time series econometrics and contribute to the debate on the procyclicality of mortality. For the first time, we examine the differing consequences of economic changes for all individual age...