Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data

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 indiv...

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Autores principales: van den Berg, Gerard J., Gerdtham, Ulf-G., von Hinke, Stephanie, Lindeboom, Maarten, Lissdaniels, Johannes, Sundquist, Jan, Sundquist, Kristina
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Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6690392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28968530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005
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author van den Berg, Gerard J.
Gerdtham, Ulf-G.
von Hinke, Stephanie
Lindeboom, Maarten
Lissdaniels, Johannes
Sundquist, Jan
Sundquist, Kristina
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Gerdtham, Ulf-G.
von Hinke, Stephanie
Lindeboom, Maarten
Lissdaniels, Johannes
Sundquist, Jan
Sundquist, Kristina
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description 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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spelling pubmed-66903922019-08-12 Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data van den Berg, Gerard J. Gerdtham, Ulf-G. von Hinke, Stephanie Lindeboom, Maarten Lissdaniels, Johannes Sundquist, Jan Sundquist, Kristina J Health Econ Article 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. 2017-09-14 2017-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6690392/ /pubmed/28968530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005 Text en This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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