The Association between the Volatility of Income and Life Expectancy in the United States

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ziff, Anna L.; Wiemers, Emily; Hotz, V. Joseph
• 署名单位: Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Syracuse University; University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; Duke University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/732668
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: S153-S178
• 关键词: job loss; mortality; HEALTH; LEVEL; INEQUALITY; TRENDS

摘要

We examine the relationship between income volatility and life expectancy in mid-sized US commuting zones between 2006 and 2014. We use a commercial dataset, InfoUSA, to measure income volatility, which we link to estimates of life expectancy by gender, county, race, and income. We find that higher income volatility in a county is associated with lower life expectancy but only at the bottom of the income distribution and primarily for non-Hispanic Whites. Though we cannot extrapolate our findings to individual-level relationships, we do link them to existing literatures on place-based differences in mortality and the relationship between volatility and health.