Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data

被引:26
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作者
van den Berg, Gerard J. [1 ,2 ]
Gerdtham, Ulf-G. [3 ,4 ,5 ]
von Hinke, Stephanie [1 ]
Lindeboom, Maarten [6 ]
Lissdaniels, Johannes [3 ,7 ]
Sundquist, Jan [8 ]
Sundquist, Kristina [8 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bristol, Sch Econ Finance & Management, Bristol, Avon, England
[2] Inst Evaluat Labour Market & Educ Policy IFAU, Uppsala, Sweden
[3] Lund Univ, Dept Clin Sci Malmo, Hlth Econ Unit, Malmo, Sweden
[4] Lund Univ, Dept Econ, Lund, Sweden
[5] Lund Univ, Ctr Econ Demog, Lund, Sweden
[6] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Sch Business & Econ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[7] Swedish Agcy Hlth & Care Serv Anal, Stockholm, Sweden
[8] Lund Univ, Fac Med, Lund, Sweden
基金
瑞典研究理事会; 美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
Death; Recession; Health; Unemployment; Income; Aggregation; ECONOMIC-CONDITIONS; HEALTH BEHAVIORS; RECESSIONS GOOD; TIMES;
D O I
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both individual and aggregated data on a sample of 20-64 year-old Swedish men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on the level of analysis: the sign and magnitude of the parameter estimates are similar at the individual level and the aggregate (county) level; both showing pro-cyclical mortality. (c) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:10
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