全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors: Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20950
来源ID	Working Paper 20950
	Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors: Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland
	Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir; Hope Corman; Kelly Noonan; Nancy Reichman
发表日期	2015-02-16
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore trajectories in health behaviors from pre-crisis boom, to crisis, to recovery. Health-compromising behaviors (smoking, heavy drinking, sugared soft drinks, sweets, fast food, and tanning) declined during the crisis, and all but sweets continued to decline during the recovery. Health-promoting behaviors (consumption of fruit, fish oil, and vitamin/ minerals and getting recommended sleep) followed more idiosyncratic paths. Overall, most behaviors reverted back to their pre-crisis levels or trends during the recovery, and these short-term deviations in trajectories were probably too short-lived in this recession to have major impacts on health or mortality. A notable exception is for alcohol consumption, which declined dramatically during the crisis years, continued to fall (at a slower rate) during the recovery, and did not revert back to the pre-crisis upward trend during our observation period. These lingering effects, which directionally run counter to the pre-crisis upward trend, suggest that alcohol is a potential pathway by which recessions improve health and/or reduce mortality.
主题	Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20950
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578625
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir,Hope Corman,Kelly Noonan,et al. Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors: Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland. 2015.