Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s

We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with

本研究考察经济危机对墨西哥民众健康的影响。过去二十年间，墨西哥先后爆发四次大规模经济危机，最近一次发生于1995年至1996年。我们发现，相较于未明确的参照对象，危机年份内极低龄群体与老年群体的死亡率要么出现上升，要么下降幅度更为平缓。