that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven …

. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative … individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that individual may undergo precedes the occurrence of a disease, and relies …

. We estimate the relationship between unemployment, a widely accepted proxy for economic climate, and mortality in … Australia, a country with universal health care. Using administrative time-series data on mortality that varies by state, age …, sex, and cause of death collected for the years 1979-2017, we find no relationship between unemployment and mortality on …

that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven …

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 …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

influenza suffered from worse adult health and, for males, also increased mortality at old ages, particularly in cancer. Their … elevated health risks in later life led to a growing interest into whether fetal exposure to other – less severe - diseases … could cause health problems as well. Epidemiological studies of the fetal origins of later life health that followed found …