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 …

than good due to the economic contraction, despite a large literature that finds mortality rates decline during recessions … Australia, a country with universal health care. Using administrative time-series data on mortality that varies by state, age …Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter an emerging public health crisis due …

than good due to the economic contraction, despite a large literature that finds mortality rates decline during recessions … Australia, a country with universal health care. Using administrative time-series data on mortality that varies by state, age …Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter an emerging public health crisis due …

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from …

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from …

mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels …This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses …

mortality rates using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data based on records of 2.1 million people diagnosed with cancer …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health … probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …