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While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …
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absence during economic upturns. Using state-level aggregated data from 112 German public health insurance funds (out of 145 …
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death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
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This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...
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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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Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter an emerging public health crisis due … Australia, a country with universal health care. Using administrative time-series data on mortality that varies by state, age … average. However, we observe beneficial health effects in economic downturns for young men aged 25 to 34 associated with a …
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There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both...
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information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life … ; developmental origins ; retirement ; health ; long-run effects ; dementia …
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