The effect of job loss on overweight and drinking

Deb, Partha; Gallo, William T.; Ayyagari, Padmaja; Fletcher, Jason M.; Sindelar, Jody L.

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.12.009

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“…Ruhm (2000Ruhm ( , 2003, Ruhm and Black (2002), Neumayer (2004), and Gerdtham and Ruhm (2006) find that higher unemployment is associated with lower mortality rates, while Dehejia and LlerasMuney (2004) find that higher unemployment improves infant health. These patterns have been attributed to recession-induced changes in health behaviors, though the evidence on this channel is mixed (see Xu and Kaestner (2010) and Deb et al (2011)). Miller et al (2009) argue that cyclical changes in mortality are concentrated in the young and the old and so are unlikely to represent changes in health behaviors among working age adults.…”

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Is there a Link Between Foreclosure and Health?

Currie¹,

Tekin²

2011

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We investigate the relationship between foreclosures and hospital visits using data on all foreclosures and all hospital and emergency room visits from four states that were among the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. We find that living in a neighborhood with a spike in foreclosures is associated with significant increases in urgent unscheduled visits, including increases in visits for preventable conditions. The estimated relationships cannot be accounted for by increasing unemployment, declines in housing prices, migration, or by people switching from out-patient providers to hospitals.Foreclosure rates reached historically high levels in the United States during the recent economic crisis. According to Realtytrac, a leading firm that monitors and markets foreclosed homes, a record 2.82 million homes faced foreclosure in 2009, a 21 percent rise from 2008 and a huge 120 percent jump from 2007. 1 One in 45 homes (2.23 percent of all housing units in the U.S.) received at least one foreclosure filing during 2010. As policymakers have debated measures to stabilize the housing market and minimize the damage to the U.S. economy, researchers have turned their attention to understanding the consequences of rising foreclosures.While a number of studies have investigated the effect of the foreclosure crisis on outcomes such as home prices and sales, residential investment, and durable consumption (e.g., Immergluck and Smith, 2006; Calomiris, Longhofer, and Miles, 2008;Rogers and Winter, 2009;Harding, Rosenblatt, and Yao, 2009;Mian, Sufi, and Trebbi, 2010), there has been no large-scale investigation of the effect of the crisis on health. The foreclosure crisis represents a significant shock to the financial well-being of many households, and thus provides a fresh opportunity to examine the relationship between financial distress and health. Financial distress may have direct effects on health, but can also cause changes in health behaviors, which in turn can have negative health consequences.The goal of this paper is to investigate whether the foreclosure crisis had an adverse effect on health. To accomplish this goal, we assemble quarterly data on all foreclosures, allCorrespondence to: Erdal Tekin, tekin@gsu.edu. 1 See http://www.realtytrac.com/content/foreclosure-market-report. HHS Public AccessAuthor manuscript Am Econ J Econ Policy. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2016 July 05. Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author ManuscriptEmergency Room (ER) visits, and all hospitalizations from four states (Arizona, California, Florida, and New Jersey) which are among the 10 states that have been hardest hit by the crisis. Unfortunately, there are no large individual-level longitudinal sources of data linking foreclosure and health. In the absence of such data, we match data on foreclosures, hospitalizations, and ER visits at the zip code level.Our main specifications control for zip code fixed effects, zip code specific linear time trends, and county by quarter by year fixed effects so...

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Section: B) Effects Of Unemployment On Healthmentioning

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Is there a Link Between Foreclosure and Health?

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2011

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“…[6,10,11] Furthermore, some authors argue that an economic downturn may reduce nutrition quality and physical activity, thus worsening obesity prevalence when society is least able to bear the escalating financial burden. [5,[12][13][14][15] Several hypotheses have been put forward by different scholars on the potential links between economic conditions and physical activity. Some scholars suggest that, during an economic crisis, people experience excessive financial and psychological stresses, which can contribute to a sedentary lifestyle and decreased level of physical activity.…”

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Employment status and differences in physical activity behavior during times of economic hardship: results of a population-based study

Macassa

Ahmadi²,

Alfredsson³

et al. 2016

Int J Med Sci Public Health

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“…Second, unemployment and smoking could be linked in a more complex way than previously assumed, that is causal effects could be masked by unaccounted mediators (Kessler, Turner and House 1988;Kokko and Pulkkinen 1998) or might depend on past trajectories of health behaviours (Deb et al 2011). Third, it is possible that the results we found are country specific, as different welfare state arrangements have been shown to produce diverging health outcomes in the unemployed (Bambra and Eikemo 2009).…”

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Unemployment and Smoking: Causation, Selection, or Common Cause? - Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Schunck

Rogge²

2012

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. ABSTRACTBackground: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio-economic position (common cause). Methods: Longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from the years 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 were used to examine the effect of unemployment on smoking probability and vice versa (65,823 observations from 18,735 respondents, aged 18-60 years). Effects were estimated by using random and fixed effects logistic panel regressions. Results:Results from the random effects logistic regression models suggest that unemployed have a higher probability to smoke and that smokers have a higher probability to become unemployed. However, the fixed effects models indicate that the observed associations are driven by unobse...

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The effect of job loss on overweight and drinking

Cited by 192 publications

References 49 publications

Is there a Link Between Foreclosure and Health?

Is there a Link Between Foreclosure and Health?

Employment status and differences in physical activity behavior during times of economic hardship: results of a population-based study

Unemployment and Smoking: Causation, Selection, or Common Cause? - Evidence from Longitudinal Data

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