TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Berg, Gerard J. van den
AU  - Gerdtham, Ulf-G.
AU  - Hinke, Stephanie von
AU  - Lindeboom, Maarten
AU  - Lissdaniels, Johannes
AU  - Sundquist, Jan
AU  - Sundquist, Kristina
        TI  - Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data
        PY  - 2017/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10809
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10809
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - aggregation
KW  - income
KW  - death
KW  - recession
KW  - health
KW  - unemployment
        ER  -