Does unemployment lead to a less healthy lifestyle?

Micha Kaiser, Jan Michael Bauer and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Applied Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 24, issue 12, 815-819

Abstract: In this article, we use 22 years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and information on plant closures to investigate the effects of unemployment on four indicators of unhealthy lifestyles: diet, alcohol consumption, smoking and (a lack of) physical activity. In contrast to much of the existing literature, which unlike our analysis is unable to assess causality, our results provide little evidence that unemployment gives rise to unhealthy lifestyles.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1231888

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