%0 Report
        %A Berg, Gerard J. van den
%A Gerdtham, Ulf-G.
%A Hinke, Stephanie von
%A Lindeboom, Maarten
%A Lissdaniels, Johannes
%A Sundquist, Jan
%A Sundquist, Kristina
        %T Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10809
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10809
        %X 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.
        %K aggregation
%K income
%K death
%K recession
%K health
%K unemployment