2017
Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data
Publication
Publication
Journal of Health Economics , Volume 56 p. 61- 70
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.
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| doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005, hdl.handle.net/1765/114085 | |
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| Organisation | Department of Applied Economics |
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van den Berg, L., Gerdtham, U., von Hinke Kessler Scholder, S.M.L., Lindeboom, M., Lissdaniels, J., Sundquist, J., & Sundquist, K. (2017). Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data. Journal of Health Economics, 56, 61–70. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005 |
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