Nizalova, Olena and Norton, Edward C. (2019) Long-Term Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors. Working paper. n/a (Unpublished) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:77855)
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Abstract
With periodic recessions and rising costs of health care, it is important to know how severe economic recessions can affect health outcomes. This study’s goal is to establish a causal relationship between job loss and health across the life cycle. We use a unique data set from Ukraine to examine the long-term effects from past labor market shocksdefined as job separations due to business closures, reorganizations, bankruptcies, or privatizationon BMI, smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity. This study contributes to the literature on the health consequences of job loss by identifying the effects from exogenous job separations, modeling these effects across the life cycle, and examining concurrent health-compromising and health-promoting behaviors. Applying growth-curve models, we show that past exogenous labor market shocks increase average BMI at young ages and alter the BMI-age trajectory’s shape. Moreover, we found that effects from job separations on health operate through health-compromising behaviors.
Item Type: | Reports and Papers (Working paper) |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | job loss; labor market shock; layoffs; recession; BMI; growth curve; life course |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
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Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Depositing User: | Olena Nizalova |
Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2019 19:46 UTC |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2021 15:23 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/77855 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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