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

Gerard van den Berg, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Stephanie von Hinke, Maarten Lindeboom, Johannes Lissdaniels, Jan Sundquist and Kristina Sundquist

Journal of Health Economics, 2017, vol. 56, issue C, 61-70

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Death; Recession; Health; Unemployment; Income; Aggregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E3 I1 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Working Paper: Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data (2017)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005

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