A Review of Health Consequences of Recessions Internationally and a Synthesis of the US Response during the Great Recession

Modrek, Sepideh; Stuckler, David; McKee, Martin; Cullen, Mark R.; Basu, Sanjay

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“…Most prior work and syntheses of evidence, including US studies, have argued that working age men have been most adversely affected [15][16][17]. In contrast, we found that the only age-gender groups that demonstrated excess deaths due to the recession were men aged 65 and over and women aged 15-24 years.…”

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The Great Recession and suicide

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2017

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“…For example, since ABP policy was a requirement for states to receive ARRA UI modernization funds, it is possible that the ABP coefficient may pick up other elements of the ARRA program, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, support for Medicaid, or other measures that have broad effects on unemployed residents of a state, including but not limited to just the unemployed with less than a high school education (Modrek, 2013). Medicaid, for example, affects a wide swath of the US population, having almost 70 million enrollees in 2010-nearly 20 percent of the US population-which is larger than the total adult population that did not graduate high school (approximately 13 percent of the US population) and considerably larger than the unemployed non-high school graduate population (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2014, US Census Bureau, 2012.…”

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“…Many studies suggest that job loss has deleterious effects on a variety of health behaviors and conditions and may even increase the risk of premature death (Catalano et al, 2011, Modrek, 2013, Browning and Heinesen, 2012, Sullivan and von Wachter, 2009.…”

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Unemployment Insurance and Physical Activity

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2017

Human Capital and Health Behavior

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Unemployment insurance (UI) reduces the opportunity cost of leisure, but it is unknown whether this additional leisure time is physically active. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of UI on physically active leisure participation, I exploit changes in UI program legislation across US states and time. Using nationally representative monthly data between 2003 and 2010 from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), I find evidence that both state UI eligibility expansions and increases in maximum allowable state UI benefits coincide with greater probability of physical activity among the recently unemployed. Based on point estimates, state UI eligibility expansions increased the probability of physical activity participation by 8 to 10 percentage points among the unemployed with less than a high school education, while a 10 percent increase in the maximum allowable state UI benefit increased the probability of physical activity by 0.3 to 0.6 percentage points among the unemployed who have completed high school or some college.

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“…Using data from the Great Recession, Currie et al (2015) show that recession may have a detrimental impact on mothers self-reported health with an increase in their smoking and drug use. They also find that this impact vary according to whether mothers are hispanic, white, well-educated, less-educated,... For more details on the existing literature, see Suhrcke and Stuckler (2012); Currie et al (2015); Modrek et al (2017).…”

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Environment, Health and Labor Market

Pautrel

2017

SSRN Journal

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We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor market leads to over-estimate the positive impact of environmental taxation on health. We also demonstrate that rising abatement expenditures as a way of tightening the environmental policy would be better for health than increasing environmental tax in the presence of market labor imperfections.

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A Review of Health Consequences of Recessions Internationally and a Synthesis of the US Response during the Great Recession

Cited by 75 publications

References 152 publications

The Great Recession and suicide

The Great Recession and suicide

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