Fig. 8.
Impulse responses of the growth rate of age-adjusted death rates for the leading causes of deaths to a unit shock to unemployment rate. Notes: According to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System, the five leading causes of age-adjusted deaths in the U.S. are (1) Heart disease; (2) Cancer; (3) Accidents; (4) Stroke; and (5) Influenza and pneumonia (ordered based on their relative importance).The NCHS Data Visualization Gallery provides the time-series of (1)–(5) as well as the age-adjusted overall death rates from 1900 to 2017.