CHANGES IN HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR DURING THE BUSINESS CYCLE

<p>This dissertation considers to what extent changes in the unemployment rate – a proxy for the business cycle – drives changes in mortality and crime. I use a panel of U.S. counties from 1990 to 2013. I allow changes in the unemployment rate to have different effects upon mortality / crime in large versus small counties as well as between increases versus decreases in the unemployment rate. My results show great nuance along both these dimensions, suggesting that the effects of the business cycle are more subtle than what previous studies report. These results also give one greater insight into what factors could be driving these effects of the business cycle.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Sameem, Mohammad Sediq

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sylwester, Kevin

Repository record dc:identifier

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1180

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-2184