This study is the first to investigate the interdependence of income inequality and business cycles in Germany over the … targeted structural redistributive and stabilization measures. The results of this study show that income inequality in Germany …

We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one … percentage point increase in the unemployment rate resulted in a 7.8-8.8 percent increase in reports of poor health. Mental … health was also adversely impacted and reports of chronic drinking increased. These effects were concentrated among those …

How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine … how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data … to analyze how income-related health inequality changed across time periods that can be described as a boom, crisis and …

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 … men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on …

We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business … death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health … indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We nonparametrically compare those born in …