Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201438 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2017:28
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Death
Recession
Health
Unemployment
Income
Aggregation
JEL: 
E3
I1
I12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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