@techreport{ae94de2fa12a414aa463c3cf22dcba8c,
title = "Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data",
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.",
keywords = "Mortality, Recessions, Business Cycle, Health, Unemployment, Income, E03, I10, I12",
author = "{van den Berg}, Gerard and Ulf Gerdtham and {von Hinke}, Stephanie and Maarten Lindeboom and JOHANNES LISSDANIELS and Jan Sundquist and Kristina Sundquist",
year = "2017",
language = "English",
series = "Working Papers",
publisher = "Department of Economics, Lund University",
number = "2017:5",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "Department of Economics, Lund University",
}