Recessions lower (some) mortality rates: Evidence from Germany

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1037-1047

  Neumayer, Eric ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Fixed effects; Germany; Health; Mortality; Recessions; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; MORTALITY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MODEL; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; SUICIDE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 0346059476     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00276-4     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Anderson T.W., Hsiao C. Estimation of dynamic models with error components. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 76:1981;598-606.
2. Arellano M., Bond S. Some tests of specification for panel data. Monte Carlo evidence and an application to employment equations Review of Economic Studies. 58:1991;277-297.
3. Baltagi B. Econometric analysis of panel data. 1995;Wiley, New York.
4. Brenner M.H. Mental illness and the economy. 1973;Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
5. Brenner M.H. Trends in alcohol consumption and associated illnesses. Some effects of economic changes The American Journal of Public Health. 65(12):1975;1279-1292.
6. Brenner, M. H. (1979). Mortality and the national economy. The Lancet, 568-573.
7. Brenner M.H. Relation of economic change to Swedish health and social well-being, 1950-1980. Social Science & Medicine. 25(2):1987;183-195.
8. Brenner M.H. Political economy and health. Amick B.C. III, Levine S., Tarlov A.R., Chapman Walsh D. Society and health. 1995;211-246 Oxford University Press, Oxford.
9. Brenner M.H., Mooney A. Unemployment and health in the context of economic change. Social Science & Medicine. 17(16):1983;1125-1138.
10. Chou, S. Y., Grossman, M., Saffer, H. (2002). An economic analysis of adult obesity: Results from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system. Working Paper 9247. Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research.
11. Ettner S.L. New evidence on the relationship between income and health. Journal of Health Economics. 15:1996;67-85.
12. Flatau P., Galea J., Petridis R. Mental health and wellbeing and unemployment. Australian Economic Review. 33(2):2000;161-181.
13. Forbes J., McGregor A. Unemployment and mortality in post-war Scotland. Journal of Health Economics. 3(3):1984;239-258.
14. Freeman D.G. A note on 'economic conditions and alcohol problems'. Journal of Health Economics. 18(5):1999;661-670.
15. Gerdtham E.G., Johannesson M. Are recessions good for your health? Further evidence. 2002;Mimeo, Lund University and Stockholm School of Economics.
16. Gerdtham E.G., Ruhm C.J. Deaths rise in good economic times. evidence from the OECD:2002;Mimeo, Lund University.
17. Gravelle H., Hutchinson G., Stern J. Mortality and unemployment. A critique of Brenner's time series analysis The Lancet. 26:1981;675-679.
18. Gravelle H., Wildman J., Suttan M. Income, income inequality and health. What can we learn from aggregate data? Social Science & Medicine. 54(4):2002;577-590.
19. Hill R.C., Griffiths W.E., Judge G.C. Undergraduate econometrics. 1997;Wiley, New York.
20. Jahoda M. Economic recession and mental health. Some conceptual issues Journal of Social Issues. 44:1988;13-23.
21. Joyce T., Mocan N. Unemployment and infant health - time-series evidence from the state of tennessee. Journal of Human Resources. 28(1):1993;185-203.
22. Koyck L. Distributed lags and investment analysis. 1954;North-Holland, Amsterdam.
23. McAvinchey I.D. A comparison of unemployment, income and mortality for five European countries. Applied Economics. 20:1988;453-471.
24. Novo M., Hammarström A., Janlert U. Do high levels of unemployment influence the health of those who are not unemployed? A gendered comparison of young men and women during boom and recession. Social Science & Medicine. 53(3):2001;293-303.
25. Pritchett L., Summers L.H. Wealthier is healthier. Journal of Human Resources. 31(4):1996;841-868.
26. Ruhm C.J. Are recessions good for your health? Quarterly Journal of Economics. 115(2):2000;617-650.
27. Ruhm C.J. Economic expansions are unhealthy. 2001;Mimeo, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
28. Ruhm, C. J. (2002). Healthy living in hard times. Mimeo, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
29. Ruhm C.J., Black W.E. Does drinking really decrease in bad times? Journal of Health Economics. 21(4):2002;659-678.
30. Snyder, S. E., Evans, W. N. (2002). The impact of income on mortality: Evidence from the social security notch. Working Paper 9197. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
31. Statistisches Bundesamt (various years). Statistisches Jahrbuch. Wiesbaden: Statistisches Bundesamt.
32. Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg (2002). Länderergebnisse. Stuttgart: Arbeitskreis "Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnungen der Länder".
33. Tapia Granados (2002). Mortality and economic fluctuations. Theories and empirical results from Spain and Sweden. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, New School University, New York.
34. Tapia Granados (2003). Mortality and economic fluctuations in Sweden, 1800-1998. Working Paper. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
35. Townsend, P., Davidson, N., Whitehead, M. (1992). (Eds.). Inequalities in health: The black report. New Edition. London: Penguin.
36. Wadsworth M.E.J., Montgomery S.M., Bartley M.J. The persisting effect of unemployment on health and social well-being in men early in working life. Social Science & Medicine. 48(10):1999;1491-1500.
37. Wagstaff A. Time series analysis of the relationship between unemployment and mortality. A survey of econometric critiques and replications of Brenner's studies Social Science & Medicine. 21(9):1985;985-996.
38. Warr P. Work, unemployment and mental health. 1987;Clarendon Press, Oxford.
39. Watkins S. Recession and health - a literature review. Westcott G., Svensson P.G., Zollner H.F.K. Health policy implications of unemployment. 1985;27-56 World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen.
40. Winkelmann L., Winkelmann R. Why are the unemployed so unhappy? Evidence from panel data. Economica. 65:1998;1-15.
41. Wooldridge J.M. Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data. 2002;MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.