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This article explores the relationship between the regional unemployment rate in total and cause-specific mortality in Sweden during 1976-2005. Overall mortality is unrelated to changes in the unemployment rate, while the biggest cause of death (heart disease) decreases when the unemployment...
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...
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on hypertension and cardiovascular health. A sensitivity analysis was carried out with pooled logit models estimated as …
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screening mechanism not only predicts that merger activity is intense during economic booms and subdued during recessions but is …
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competing financiers undertake their screening decisions in an uncoordinated way, thereby highlighting the role of intertemporal … screening externalities induced by competition among venture capitalists as a structural source of instability. We show that … uncoordinated screening behavior of competing financiers is an independent source of fluctuations inducing venture investment cycles …
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There has been a substantial body of work modeling the co-movement of employment, vacancies, and output over the business cycle. This paper builds on this literature, and informed by empirical investigation, models worker and firm search and hiring behavior in a manner consistent with recent...
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