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Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women : Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer

Bradley, Cathy J. - 2005

We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under...

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Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill : Evidence from Radiologists

Chan, David - 2019

Physicians, judges, teachers, and agents in many other settings differ systematically in the decisions they make when faced with similar cases. Standard approaches to interpreting and exploiting such differences assume they arise solely from variation in preferences. We develop an alternative...

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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Health Shocks and Couples' Labor Supply Decisions

Coile, Courtney - 2021

Unexpected health events such as a heart attack or new cancer diagnosis are very common for workers in their 50s and 60s. These health shocks can result in a significant loss in family income if the worker reduces labor supply, but the family can also protect itself against this loss if the...

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Alcohol Prohibition and Cirrhosis

Dills, Angela K.; Miron, Jeffrey A. - 2021

This paper uses state-level data on cirrhosis death rates to examine the impact of state prohibitions, pre-1920 federal anti-alcohol policies, and constitutional prohibition on cirrhosis State prohibitions had a minimal impact on cirrhosis, especially during the pre-1920 period. Pre-1920 federal...

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Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, the Netherlands, and the United States

Banks, James W.; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van … - 2021

This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the US, the UK and The Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in reported work disability remain substantial. In the US and the Netherlands, respondent evaluations of...

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Covid-19 Doesn't Need Lockdowns to Destroy Jobs : The Effect of Local Outbreaks in Korea

Aum, Sangmin - 2020

Unlike most countries, Korea did not implement a lockdown in its battle against COVID-19, instead successfully relying on testing and contact tracing. Only one region, Daegu-Gyeongbuk (DG), had a significant number of infections, traced to a religious sect. This allows us to estimate the causal...

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The Role of Paid Family Leave in Labor Supply Responses to a Spouse's Disability or Health Shock

Anand, Priyanka; Dague, Laura; Wagner, Kathryn - 2023

The onset of a disability or major health shock can affect the labor supply of not only those experiencing the event but also their family members. Potential caregivers face a tradeoff between time spent earning income for the family and providing care for their spouse, which could be affected...

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Effects of Disease Type and Latency on the Value of Mortality Risk

Liu, Jin‐Tan; Hammitt, James K. - 2021

We evaluate the effects of disease type and latency on willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce environmental risks of … chronic, degenerative disease. Using contingent-valuation data collected from approximately 1,200 respondents in Taiwan, we … disease, at a 1.5 percent annual rate for a 20 year latency period. WTP to reduce the risk of cancer is estimated to be about …

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International benchmarking and yardstick regulation : an application to European utilities

Jamasb, Tooraj; Pollitt, Michael G. - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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