Trade Liberalization and Mortality: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Justin Pierce and Peter Schott

No 22849, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We investigate the impact of a large economic shock on mortality. We find that counties more exposed to a plausibly exogenous trade liberalization exhibit higher rates of suicide and related causes of death, concentrated among whites, especially white males. These trends are consistent with our finding that more-exposed counties experience relative declines in manufacturing employment, a sector in which whites and males are disproportionately employed. We also examine other causes of death that might be related to labor market disruption and find both positive and negative relationships. More-exposed counties, for example, exhibit lower rates of fatal heart attacks.

JEL-codes: F1 F13 F16 I1 I18 J08 J21 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int and nep-lma
Note: EH ITI LS
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (50)

Published as Justin R. Pierce & Peter K. Schott, 2020. "Trade Liberalization and Mortality: Evidence from US Counties," American Economic Review: Insights, vol 2(1), pages 47-63.

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22849.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Trade Liberalization and Mortality: Evidence from US Counties (2020)
Working Paper: Trade Liberalization and Mortality: Evidence from U.S. Counties (2016)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:22849

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22849

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().