From: Chris Hibbert (hibbert@agorics.com)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 14:54:37 MDT
rhanson@gmu.edu said:
> (Btw, in the short term the US mortality rate goes *up* .5% for every
> 1% the unemployment rate falls. See May 2000 QJE.)
Your emphasis notwithstanding, did you really mean to say that death rates
go up when employment rates go up? (i.e. when unemployment rates go down)
That *would* be pretty surprising.
Chris
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