How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19
pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost—taken together, this public health …

Background: Economic growth is considered an important determinant of population health.
Sources of data: Relevant studies investigating the effect of economic growth on health …

Abstract Over the 1976–2010 period, total mortality shifted from strongly procyclical to being
weakly or unrelated to macroeconomic conditions. The association is likely to be poorly …

Based on the scores and trends of Sustainable Development Goals, Iran, our case study,
has been unsuccessful in nearly all the pillars of sustainable development despite the …

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental distress
using data from the Spanish National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the …

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of
individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems …

It is well-known that mortality rates are pro-cyclical. In this paper, we attempt to understand
why. We find little evidence that cyclical changes in individuals' own employment-related …

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 …

We estimate the causal effect of nurse turnover on mortality and the quality of nursing home
care with a fixed-effect instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as …

Individuals can react to financial stress in a variety of ways, such as reducing discretionary
spending or engaging in risky behaviors. This article investigates the effect of changing …