'Recessions, healthy no more?': A note on Recessions, Gender and Mortality in France

Josselin Thuilliez

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: This study uses aggregate panel data on 96 French départements from 1982 to 2012 to investigate the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, gender and mortality. I use previously employed panel data methods, based on mortality variation across French départements and years. The novelty is to analyze the effect of gender-specific unemployment on gender-specific mortality. Within this “area-gender approach”, I give a particular attention to gender-cause-specific mortality such as prostate cancer, maternal mortality, female breast cancer, cervical cancer and ovarian cancer in addition to other cause-specific mortality. The analysis is undertaken for several age-groups, several time windows and different geographical aggregates of unemployment. The results reveal that the relationship between unemployment and mortality in France is weak and confirm recent conclusions from U.S. state-level analysis by Rhum [Ruhm, C.J., 2015. Recessions, Healthy no more?. Journal of Health Economics 42, 17-28]

Keywords: Health; Mortality; Recessions; Gender; Macroeconomic conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 I12 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2016-01
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Working Paper: ‘Recessions, healthy no more?’: A note on Recessions, Gender and Mortality in France (2016)
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