Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
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Keywords
business cycle; recession; health; health behavior;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General - - - General
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2013-08-16 (Health Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2013-08-16 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-SPO-2013-08-16 (Sports and Economics)
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