place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places … affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that …

This paper examines the impact of exposure to higher unemployment rates in the pre-retirement years on subsequent … mortality. Although past research has found that recessions reduce contemporaneous mortality, these short-term effects may … also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when …