There is the coping hypothesis, that coping with unemployment causes unhealthy behavior and death [1] and the latent sickness hypothesis [2], that unhealthy beh

There is the coping hypothesis, that coping with unemployment causes unhealthy behavior and death [1] and the latent sickness hypothesis [2], that unhealthy behavior is a cause of both unemployment and death. Anecdotally it makes sense - if you are an alcoholic or drug addict you are likely to lose your job as well as die as a result of your behavior - but the actual number of people who die is ostensibly hard to measure. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070776/#R41 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070776/#R41 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070776/#R65 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070776/#R65