University of Groningen; VU University Amsterdam - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Tinbergen Institute
Lund University - Center for Primary Health Care Research
Abstract
There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas 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.
van den Berg, Gerard J. and Gerdtham, Ulf and von Hinke, Stephanie and Lindeboom, Maarten and Lissdaniels, Johannes and Sundquist, Jan and Sundquist, Kristina, Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data. IZA Discussion Paper No. 10809, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2979956 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2979956
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