TY - JOUR
T1 - Mortality and the business cycle
T2 - evidence from individual and aggregated data
AU - van den Berg, Gerard J.
AU - Gerdtham, Ulf G.
AU - von Hinke, Stephanie
AU - Lindeboom, Maarten
AU - Lissdaniels, Johannes
AU - Sundquist, Jan
AU - Sundquist, Kristina
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Aggregation
KW - Death
KW - Health
KW - Income
KW - Recession
KW - Unemployment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85030102476&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.09.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 28968530
AN - SCOPUS:85030102476
SN - 0167-6296
VL - 56
SP - 61
EP - 70
JO - Journal of Health Economics
JF - Journal of Health Economics
ER -