Does the Relationship Between Mortality and the Business Cycle Vary by the Level of Economic Development? Evidence from Mexico

Fidel Gonzalez and Troy Quast ()
Additional contact information
Troy Quast: Department of Economics and International Business, Sam Houston State University

No 908, Working Papers from Sam Houston State University, Department of Economics and International Business

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between mortality and business cycles within Mexico, where development varies significantly. We exploit this variation by separately analyzing the top ten and bottom ten developed states. We find that while mortality is procyclical nationally and in the top ten states, it is countercyclical in the bottom ten. Further, we show that in the top ten states mortality due to noncommunicable conditions is procyclical, while in the bottom ten mortality due to noncommunicable conditions and infectious and parasitic diseases is countercyclical. This suggests that the relationship between mortality and business cycles may vary by level of development.

Date: 2009-10
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.shsu.edu/academics/economics-and-intern ... es/wp09-08_paper.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
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:shs:wpaper:0908

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Sam Houston State University, Department of Economics and International Business Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christian Raschke ().