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 …

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 …

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 …

. 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 …

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 …