Are Recessions Good For Your Health

By Christopher J. Ruhm. 2000

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• The Conflictive Relationship between Satisfaction and Income (2008, unknown): “12 In a study for the United States, Ruhm (2000) found a procyclical pattern in mortality rates, in eight out of 10 cases analyzed, in tobacco consumption and the incidence of obesity.”
• Employment, Wages, and Voter Turnout (2013, unknown): “Finally, in recent years there has been a spate of research studying how economic activity affects things like fertility decisions (Dehejia and Llera-Munery 2004), children’s schooling outcomes (Ferreira and Schady 2009), mortality (Ruhm 2000), and health behaviors (Xu and Kaestner 2010).”
• An Economic Interpretation of Suicide Cycles in Japan (2008, unknown): “Empirical tests involving panel data show a strong correlation between unemployment and suicide (see Platt, 1984; Ruhm, 2000; Gerdtham and Johannesson, 2003), but studies with aggregated time-series data produce mixed results on at least two key points.”
• Are Recessions Good for Your Health? When Ruhm Meets GHH (2014, methodology): “The striking results of counter-cyclicality of health status found by Ruhm (2000) thus is con rmed on a macroeconomic level.”
• The impact of legalized abortion on crime (2001, unknown): “Finally, although a strong economy is super cially consistent with the drop in crime since 1991, previous research has established only a weak link between economic performance and violent crime [Freeman 1995] and in one case even suggested that murder rates might vary procyclically [Ruhm 2000].”
• Impatience, Incentives and Obesity (2015, unknown): “…2011), health insurance coverage (Bhattacharya et al., 2010), urban sprawl (Ewing et al., 2003; Frank et al., 2004; Plantinga and Bernell, 2007; Eid et al., 2008; Zhao and Kaestner, 2010), the minimum wage (Meltzer and Chen, forthcoming), and the unemployment rate (Ruhm, 2000 and 2005). prices.”
• Job Displacement and Mortality: An Analysis Using Administrative Data (2009, background): “Second, we regressed cell-level changes in mortality on cell-level earnings losses, weighting by the inverse sampling variance of the cell-specific mortality increases.”