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

Gerard van den Berg, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Stephanie von Hinke, Maarten Lindeboom, Jan Sundquist, Johannes Lissdaniels and Kristina Sundquist
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Maarten Lindeboom: School of Business and Economics, Lund University
Jan Sundquist: Faculty of Medicine, Lund University
Johannes Lissdaniels: Health Economics Unit, Dept. of Clinical Sciences, Lund University; Swedish Agency for Health and Care Services Analysis
Kristina Sundquist: Faculty of Medicine, Lund University

No 2017:28, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

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: E30 I10 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2017-12-29
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Note: Published in: Journal of Health Economics, December 2017, vol. 56, pp. 61-70, "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005"
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Journal Article: Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data (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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