Ulf Gerdtham
Professor
Mortality and the Business Cycle : Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data
Författare
Summary, in English
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.
Avdelning/ar
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
- Hälsoekonomi
- Centrum för ekonomisk demografi
- Allmänmedicin och klinisk epidemiologi
- Allmänmedicin, kardiovaskulär epidemiologi och levnadsvanor
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
Publiceringsår
2017
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Working Papers
Issue
2017:5
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Working paper
Förlag
Department of Economics, Lund University
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Mortality
- Recessions
- Business Cycle
- Health
- Unemployment
- Income
- E03
- I10
- I12
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Health Economics
- Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
- Family Medicine, Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Lifestyle